KROK 1 2017 – Question 140 · KROK (Medicine) · Human Anatomy
The brain trauma unit received a patient with damaged greater wing of the sphenoid bone. The fracture line crosses the spinous foramen of the sphenoid. What vessel was damaged?
- A. Anterior deep temporal artery
- B. Middle meningeal artery
- C. Superficial temporal artery
- D. Lateral pterygoid artery
- E. Posterior deep temporal artery
Hint
Remember what normally passes through this particular opening of the greater wing and which tissue it supplies once inside the skull.
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