Perpetuation of errors in illustrations of cranial nerve anatomy
Perpetuation of errors in illustrations of cranial nerve anatomy
J Neurosurg 127:192–198, 2017
For more than 230 years, anatomical illustrations have faithfully reproduced the German medical student Thomas Soemmerring’s cranial nerve (CN) arrangement. Virtually all contemporary atlases show the abducens, facial, and vestibulocochlear nerves (CNs VI–VIII) all emerging from the pontomedullary groove, as originally depicted by Soemmerring in 1778.
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