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Comprehensive and Clinical Anatomy of the Middle Ear

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The middle ear cavity is situated in the center of the temporal bone, at the intersection of two axes: the lateromedial axe between inner and outer ear canals and the postero - anterior axe between mastoid antrum and Eustachian tube. This chapter describes in depth the advanced anatomy of the four walls of the cavity, its roof and its floor along with their developmental stages to better understand the particularities of the anatomical key structures always in relation to surgical interest. In this second edition a concise knowledge concerning the mechanics of the tympanic membrane and middle ear is reported to better correlate anatomical details to function and surgical reconstruction..

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    Salah Mansour

  2. Clinique CAUSSE, Colombiers, France

    Jacques Magnan

  3. Hamad Medical Corporation, Weill Cornell Medicine, Doha, Qatar

    Hassan Haidar Ahmad

  4. Bsalim Hospital, Middle East Institute of Health, Mount Lebanon, Lebanon

    Karen Nicolas

  5. Université Libre de Bruxelles, Faculté de Médecine, Laboratoire d’Anatomie, Biomécanique et Organogenèse, Brussels, Belgium

    Stéphane Louryan

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Mansour, S., Magnan, J., Ahmad, H.H., Nicolas, K., Louryan, S. (2019). Middle Ear Cavity. In: Comprehensive and Clinical Anatomy of the Middle Ear. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15363-2_2

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