[Autopsy study for maxillary nerve and its artery supply].

Objective: To observe the travel, divisions, and the lengths, diameters, branches, artery supplies of the main segments of maxillary nerve.

Methods: Fifty formalin-preserved adult half-head specimens with intravascular injection of red color emulsion were used for the gross and microanatomical studies of maxillary nerve. The lengths, diameters, branches and artery supplies of four main segments of maxillary nerve were observed.

[The applied anatomic study of palatopharyngeus muscle].

Objective: The aim of this investigation was to examine the anatomic basis of palatopharyngeus and clinical implications for sphincter pharyngoplasty.

Methods: Detailed dissections were performed on 17 sides of adult human head and neck specimens. The eight sides newborns' head and neck cadavers were also used in the study (4 normal and 4 cleft lip and palate).