Anatomic item of the human ethmoid bone -- bulla ethmoidalis uncinata
Mashkova, T.A.; Isaev, A.V.
Vestnik Otorinolaringologii 2005(4): 20-21
2005
ISSN/ISBN: 0042-4668 PMID: 16091716 Document Number: 588230
A discovery was made in the N.N. Burdenko Voronezh State Medical Academy patented in 2002 - earlier unknown anatomic item of human ethmoid bone - bulla ethmoidalis uncinata. It is a pneumatized conjunction of the large ethmoid vesicle and the uncinate process located on the medial plate of ethmoid labyrinth constituting the upper part of the lateral nasal wall in the region of the middle nasal passage. The discovery concerns the field of medicine, i.e. human topographic anatomy, surgery, otorhinolaryngology.