Temporomandibular Joint: Relation of the Retrodiskal Zone to Meckel's Cartilage and Lateral Pterygoid Muscle
RUSSELL D. COLEMAN 1
1 Section of Anatomy, School of Dentistry, University of California San Francisco Medical Center, San Francisco, California 94122
In human fetuses, the diskomalleolar ligament was found to extend from the articular disk and capsule through the petrotympanic fissure to Meckel's cartilage and the malleus. In the adult, the retrodiskal fibers were continuous with the origin of the anterior ligament of the malleus and from the walls of the petrotympanic fissure.
Submitted on July 31, 1969
