ArticleSurgical and radiologic anatomy : SRA2005
The deep belly of the temporalis muscle: an anatomical, histological and MRI study.
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- Anatomical Variations of the Temporalis Muscle: A Magnetic Resonance Imaging-Based Study.BioMed research international · 2026Article
- Morphological classification of the temporalis muscle: anatomical, radiological, and surgical perspectives.Frontiers in surgery · 2026Review
- Comparative Analysis of Bite Force after Cranioplasty with and without Temporalis Dissection in Large Skull Defects Caused by Decompressive Craniectomy.Asian journal of neurosurgery · 2025Article
- The sphenomandibularis shown on P45 sheet plastination and dissection.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Variation and distribution in temporalis muscle innervation: A systematic review and meta-analysis of anatomical studies.JPRAS open · 2025Review
- Temporalis muscle flap in craniofacial reconstruction: anatomy, techniques, outcomes, and innovations.Frontiers in surgery · 2025Review
- Debate on the Morphological Variability of the Lateral Pterygoid Muscle-Discrepancies, Speculations and New Original Anatomical Samples.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2024Review
- Morphology of the temporalis muscle focusing on the tendinous attachment onto the coronoid process.Anatomy & cell biology · 2021Article
- Sex Differences in the Temporalis Tendon-Aponeurotic Complex: An in vivo MRI Macroscopic Analysis in Children and Adolescents.Cells, tissues, organs · 2021Article
- Temporal tendinosis: A cause of chronic orofacial pain.Current pain and headache reports · 2020Review
- Early and long-term changes in the muscles of the mandible following orthognathic surgery.Clinical oral investigations · 2019Article
- Masticator space abscess derived from odontogenic infection: imaging manifestation and pathways of extension depicted by CT and MR in 30 patients.European radiology · 2008Article
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Abstract
In order to achieve a better functional and clinical knowledge of a masticatory muscle called the sphenomandibularis that is suspected to be responsible for headaches by compressing the maxillary nerve, bilateral dissections of the infratemporal fossa were performed on ten human cadavers and completed by histological and radiological studies of the same areas. Both macroscopic and microscopic observations obviously showed that the so-called sphenomandibularis muscle corresponds to the deep portion of the temporalis muscle, since there is no epimysial septum between these two structures, which previously have been described as being completely independent from each other. In spite of the close topographic relationship between the deep belly of the temporalis and the lateral pterygoid muscle, as well as their similar innervation pattern, the sphenomandibularis in fact has to be considered functionally as an original but non-isolated positional fascicle of the temporalis muscle itself. Our observations, correlated with MR images, suggest indeed that the deep belly of the temporalis muscle is of functional importance in the masticatory movements, but is not involved by its neurovascular vicinity in the genesis of specific headaches. Its surgical release, however, should be discussed in the case of a temporal myoplasty.
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