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Report of Two Cases

J. WARREN WHITE, M.D.

Arch Otolaryngol. 1930;12(2):248-249.

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"The pharyngo-maxillary fossa is funnel-shaped with its base up and point down and is of very considerable size. It is the pathway of the great vessels and nerves of the neck. It is the pathway, also, of the vessels to and from the tonsil. The base of the funnel is the base of the skull; the tip is opposite the lower limit of the angle of the jaw. The carotid sheath emerges at the tip of the funnel and for practical purposes, continues as the fossa through the neck to the thorax. The internal boundary of the fossa is the superior constrictor muscle on which the tonsil rests. The external is the inner surface of the ascending ramus of the jaw covered by the internal pterygoid muscle. Superiorly, the inner prolongation of the parotid gland makes a part of the external boundary. The upper cervical vertebrae covered by the prevertebral . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
NORFOLK, VA.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication, March 22, 1930.

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