1. Similar symptoms can also occur secondary to petrous fractures or to nasopharyngeal tumours. 2. Magne and skipper Fabien Petrous are the only two survivors of the 1999 World Cup runners-up. 3. The petrous portion is among the most basal elements of the skull and forms part of the endocranium. 4. Defender Adam Petrous of Slavia Prague and Sparta Prague's Karel Poborsky also were included in the team. 5. At the tip of the petrous temporal bone it makes a sharp turn forward to enter the cavernous sinus. 6. :Here's your reference : the middle ear lies in the petrous part of the temporal bone. 7. Congenital cholesteatomas occur at three important sites : the middle ear, the Petrous apex, and the cerebropontine angle. 8. For example, fractures of the petrous temporal bone can selectively damage the nerve, as can aneurysms of the intracavernous carotid artery. 9. It is directed superiorly, as per its nomenclature, and posteriorly, nearly parallel to the posterior surface of the petrous bone. 10. When the mouth is closed the meniscus is bordered medially and superiorly by the glenoid fossa of the petrous portion of the temporal bone.
