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February 1978
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The Laryngoscope
Microscopic dissection of 20 human temporal bones revealed that the nerve of Jacobson gave rise to a hypotympanic branch in 50% of the specimens. The fact that the branch was frequently covered by promontory bone and was difficult to approach by the standard tympanotomy technique may explain the 21% failure rate as reported in the literature.
... [1][2][3][4][5] Moreover, TN plays an important role in the regulation of tympanic cavity pressure. 6,7 Owing to pathological entities such as intractable otalgia, chronic secretory otitis media, Meniere's disease, Frey's syndrome, parotid sialectasis, schwannoma, crocodile tearing, otosclerosis, chronic parotitis, parotid duct stenosis, and parotid salivary fistula, 3,5,[8][9][10][11][12] the twigs and function of TN are of great importance for otologists in terms of tympanic neurectomy. Its position also has surgical importance to prevent involuntary damage during interventions such as cochlear implantation. ...
February 1978
The Laryngoscope
