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The Temporal Bone

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Comprehensive and Clinical Anatomy of the Middle Ear

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Due to its multiple embryological origins and its adverse developmental aspects, the temporal bone is considered as one of the most complex anatomical structures of the human body. Since the middle ear lodges inside the temporal bone, this chapter will be mostly oriented, not to study the temporal bone as such, but to address it in a specific and restricted scope aiming to describe precisely the developmental and anatomical environment in which the middle ear achieves its final architecture.

The temporal bone houses various cranial nerves and inhabits different important vascular structures and many sensorineural organs in close contacts. Our target will be to demonstrate the richness of such critical structures along with their relationships around and inside the middle ear.

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  1. Hospital Sacre Coeur ORL Chirurgie Cervico - Faciale, Lebanese University, Baabda, Lebanon

    Salah Mansour MD, FRCSC

  2. ORL Chirurgie Cervico - Faciale, Hôpital Trad, Beirut, Lebanon

    Salah Mansour MD, FRCSC

  3. ORL - Chirurgie Cervico - Faciale, University Aix-Marseille Hôpital Nord, Marseille, France

    Jacques Magnan MD, PhD

  4. ORL - Chirurgie Cervico - Faciale, Hôpital Nord, Marseille, France

    Hassan Haidar MD, ABORL

  5. Department of Radiology Middle East Institute of Health, Bsalim Levant Clinics, Fachaerztin fuer Radiologische Diagnostik Lebanese University, Beirut, Lebanon

    Karen Nicolas MD

  6. Department of Radiology, Levant Clinics, Sinn el Fil, Lebanon

    Karen Nicolas MD

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

    Stéphane Louryan MD, PhD

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Mansour, S., Magnan, J., Haidar, H., Nicolas, K., Louryan, S. (2013). The Temporal Bone. In: Comprehensive and Clinical Anatomy of the Middle Ear. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36967-4_1

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