Ballance published over 75 articles during his career, his best known work being the 1919 " Essays on the Surgery of the Temporal bone ".
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The lesser petrosal nerve re-enters and travels through the temporal bone to emerge in the middle cranial fossa just lateral to the greater petrosal nerve.
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Just after the facial nerve geniculate ganglion ( general sensory ganglion ) in the temporal bone, the facial nerve gives off two separate parasympathetic nerves.
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The challenge of cholesteatoma surgery is to permanently remove the cholesteatoma whilst retaining or reconstructing the normal functions of the structures housed within the temporal bone.
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As many as 50 % of people who survive gunshots wounds directed at the temporal bone suffer facial nerve damage, usually due to a severed nerve.
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Thus, an entire anterior cranial skeleton was found along with a largely complete left temporal bone and a number of frontal, parietal and occipital bone segments.
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Before exiting the jugular foramen, the tympanic nerve enters the petrous portion of the temporal bone and ascends via the inferior tympanic canaliculus to the tympanic cavity.
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Post-mortem studies show that as many as 10 % of people may have otosclerotic lesions of their temporal bone, but apparently never had symptoms warranting a diagnosis.
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The most common cause of intracranial epidural hematoma is venous, Thus only 20 to 30 % of epidural hematomas occur outside the region of the temporal bone.
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He said part of a skull and remains of a face including teeth belonged to a 14-15-year-old male and a temporal bone to a woman of unspecified age.
