Pterygopalatine nerves

Pterygopalatine nerves
Alveolar branches of superior maxillary nerve and pterygopalatine ganglion. (Pterygopalatine nerves visible but not labeled.)
An illustration of the path of the Maxillary nerve.
Details
From	maxillary nerve
To	pterygopalatine ganglion
Latin	nervi pterygopalatini, nervi sphenopalatini
Anatomical terms of neuroanatomy [edit on Wikidata]

The pterygopalatine nerves (or sphenopalatine branches), two in number, descend to the pterygopalatine ganglion.^[1]

Although it is closely related to the pterygopalatine ganglion, it is still considered a branch of the maxillary nerve and does not synapse in the ganglion.^[2]

It is found in the pterygopalatine fossa.^[3]

Additional images

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  Distribution of the maxillary and mandibular nerves, and the submaxillary ganglion.

References

This article incorporates text in the public domain from the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918)

1. "eMedicine - Perineural Spread of Tumor Along the Fifth and Seventh Cranial Nerves : Article by Charles Lee". Retrieved 2008-02-28.
2. Hiatt, James L.; Gartner, Leslie P. (2010). Textbook of head and neck anatomy 4th edition. Baltimore, MD: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. p. 295. ISBN 978-0-7817-8932-5.
3. Anne M. R. Agur; Moore, Keith L. Essential Clinical Anatomy (Point (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins)). Hagerstown, MD: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. p. 562. ISBN 0-7817-6274-X.