For decades, the skull base, especially the clival region, was labeled as “no-man’s-land” due to its deep location, complex anatomy, and intricate relationship with facial and neck structures such as the upper aerodigestive tract, the basal surface of the brain, multiple cranial nerves, ...
(Reproduced from Clemente CD, ed. Gray’s anatomy of the human body. 30th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Lea & Febiger, 1985:166, with permission.) Description FIGURE 14-7. Human skull, frontal aspect. The left maxilla is shaded red (on the right side of the drawing), and the r...
a Turkish Horse in a Stable by Theodore Gericault (1791–1824); note the labeled parts of the Turkish saddle: pommel (1), seat (2), and cantle (3) (public domain). b The anatomy of the sella turcica: tuberculum sellae (1), hypophysial fossa (2), and dorsum sellae (3) (Dr....