AUDITORY TUBE/EUSTACHIAN TUBE -ANATOMY,ARTERIAL SUPPLY/NERVE SUPPLY
AUDITORY TUBE /EUSTACHIAN TUBE
- Shape: Trumpet
- Length: 4 cm
- Connect : middle ear cavity with nasopharynx
BONY PART
- Length: 12 mm
- Situation: Petrous temporal
- Form: posterior and lateral one third
RELATION:
- Superior- Tensor tympani
- Medial- Carotid canal
- Lateral- Chorda tympani
CARTLAGINOUS PART :
- Length-25 mm
- Situation-Sulcus tubae
- Form: anterior and medial two third
RELATION:
- ANTERIOLATERALLY: Mandibular nerve and its branches
- POSTEROMEDIALLY : Petrous temporal
ARTERIAL SUPPLY:
- Ascending pharyngeal ,middle meningeal artery
NERVE SUPPLY:
- Maxillary nerve
- Mandibular nerve- cartilaginous part
- Pharyngeal -bony part
FUNCTION:
- Communicate middle ear cavity to external : equal air pressure on both side of tympanic membrane
- Tube usually closed :opens during- swallowing, yawning
APPLIED ANATOMY:
- Infection may pass from throat to middle ear
- Inflammation of tube ,second attack of common cold, sore throat .
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