Pterygoid fovea - illustration

Case contributed by Frank Gaillard
Diagnosis not applicable

Photograph of a mandible with bilateral pterygoid fovea (arrows); a small depression on the anteromedial surface of the condylar process of the mandible marking the attachment of the inferior belly of the lateral pterygoid muscle.

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