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Head and Neck Examination Short Answers Part 4 - 2008

Confluence of the sinuses

  • bone topography occipital bone
  • marginal sinus
  • falx cerebri and superior sagittal sinus
  • falx cerebri and tentorium cerebelli - straight sinus
  • tentorium cerebelli and transverse sinus
  • falx cerebelli and occipital sinus
  • Superior sagittal sinus deviates to right transverse

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Nerve supply and functional components to the tongue

  • Motor by hypoglossal nerve - GSE
  • Anterior 2/3 taste by chorda tympani of facial - SVA
  • Anterior 2/3 touch, temp, pain by lingual - GSA
  • Posterior 1/3 taste by glossopharyngeal - SVA
  • Posterior 1/3 touch, temp, pain by glossopharyngeal - GVA
  • Extreme posterior and epiglottis taste by vagus - SVA
  • Anterior 2/3 secretomotor to mucosa by chorda tympani and submandibular ganglion - parasympathetic GVE
  • Posterior 1/3 secretomotor to mucosa by chorda tympani/submandibular or vagus/glossopharyngeal and unamed ganglia (accept nearly any account for this or omission) - GVE
    • Please note what they say about this and let me know
  • Go easy if they correctly use the function but omit the 3 letter acronym

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Piriform recess

  • Pear shaped part of hypopharynx
  • Superior - vallecula
  • Inferior - cricopharyngeus and esophagus
  • medial - larynx
  • lateral/posterior/anterior - inferior constrictor
  • inferior laryngeal nerve
  • role in swallowing

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Sphenoid sinus

  • superior - hypophyseal fossa and hypophysis
  • inferior - pterygoid canal in floor, nasal cavity
  • anterior - nasal cavity
  • posterior - dorsum sellae and clivus, basilar venous plexus
  • lateral - cavernous sinus and contents, internal carotid artery
  • medial - possible septum
  • air sinus
  • drainage - sphenoethmoidal recess

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-- LorenEvey - 26 Oct 2008

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