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Image Code: 3532

Picture of a left nasal fossa

Image published on/in: 2012 Vol.: 78 Ed.: 4 - 9º

 
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Description: Figure 4. Picture of a left nasal fossa showing details of the "sphenopalatine quadrangle." In the superior border, the tip to find the accessory foramens is the fat tissue from the pterygopalatine fossa (*). The perpendicular portion of the palatine bone is the anterior border and the starting point from which the mucoperiosteal flap is produced to find the sphenopalatine foramen.

Author(s) of the original article: Gustavo Lara Rezende¹; Vitor Yamashiro Rocha Soares²; Waldete Cabral Moraes³; Carlos Augusto Costa Pires de Oliveira⁴; Márcio Nakanishi⁵

Title and link to the article: The sphenopalatine artery: a surgical challenge in epistaxis
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