The middle ear ossicular ligaments were first comprehensively described in anatomic detail by Wolff and Belluci in 1956 (1). The ossicular ligaments were largely beyond the resolution of medical imaging until the early 1990′s at which time improvements in tube, detector and collimator technology allowed for their visualization (2). Since this early work, more detailed descriptions of these ligaments have been provided using micro-CT scans on stained pathological temporal bone samples, and cadave…