[Individual variation in the structure of the infratemporal fossa and its contents]

The subarcuate fossa was studied in 150 turtles. The enclosed muscles, fasciae and cellular tissue spaces, vessels and nerves -- in 145 heads of corpses of adult humans by the methods of dissecting, making Pirogov's sections and histotopograms. Extreme forms in the structure of the subarcuate fossa were revealed as well as interrelations between the structure of the fossa and enclosed anatomical formations.