Artigo Revisado por pares

A study of metopic sutures in human skulls.

2005; Kathmandu University; Volume: 2; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

ISSN

1812-2078

Autores

A. K. S. Bilodi, Bhaskar Agrawal, SM Mane, Arun Kumar,

Tópico(s)

History of Medical Practice

Resumo

The present study has been carried out in fifty-one adult human skulls for metopic sutures in the department of anatomy, Nepalgunj Medical College, Chisapani. Metopic sutures were found in six skulls (11.46%) This study showed higher incidences of incomplete metopic sutures (7.84%). One skull showed double incomplete sutures (one to right of bregma and other in the middle of the frontal bone in the mid line), which was of, a very rare variety seen in frontal bone of (1.96%), three skulls showed incomplete sutures (3.92%). Though the number of the skulls was small, the study showed a rare morphological variety, which was well correlated with earlier workers.

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