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The two pterygopalatine nerves (or sphenopalatine branches) 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]

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Public domain This article incorporates text in the public domain from page 890 of 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. (2007). Essential Clinical Anatomy (Point (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins)). Hagerstown, MD: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. p. 562. ISBN 978-0-7817-6274-8.


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