Related Experiment Videos
Pseudoankylosis of the mandible after temporal bone attached craniotomy
R R Hollins1, D J Moyer, H K Tu
1University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha.
Neurosurgery
|January 1, 1988
Abstract:
Mandibular hypomobility after intracranial surgical procedures is seldom encountered. A case of limited oral opening after temporal bone attached craniotomy is described. The condition is due to fibrosis of the temporalis muscle resulting in a pseudoankylosis of the temporomandibular joint. The appropriate operative intervention is transoral coronoidectomy, which restores normal joint function.