Prevalence of Wormian (Sutural) Bones in Three Italian Anthropological Collections
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Unusual presence of Wormian (sutural) bones in human skulls.
Wormian bones are a subset of the small intrasutural bones that lie between the cranial sutures formed by the bones of the skull vault. They are formed due to additional ossification centres in or near sutures. They are usually considered as normal variants and seem to be determined genetically in certain populations. They have been linked with rapid cranial expansion as they appear in great nu...
متن کاملMorphometric Analysis of Accessory Sutural Bones Association With Parietal Emissary Foramina
Background: The sutural bones and fontanelle of the skull display unique morphological characters. Sutural bones are also called supernumerary bones or ossicles or Wormian bones (WB). These are irregular and develop from the independent ossification centers present along the cranial sutures. They appear on periosteal and endosteal surfaces of the skull with variations in size, number, shape, an...
متن کاملA Wormian Bone, Mimicking an Entry Gunshot Wound of the Skull, in an Anthropological Specimen.
Wormian bones (WB) are irregular small cranial ossicles found along suture lines and fontanels. In Brazil, gunshot wounds to the skull are quite common in young individuals. Nevertheless, as far as we know, this is the first report of a WB giving an erroneous aspect of gunshot entrance due to its displacement position. The present manuscript describes the case of a Brazilian young man who died ...
متن کاملMultiple Wormian bones at the lambdoid suture in an Indian skull
The ‘Wormian bones’ or ‘sutural bones’ are small bones found at the sutures of the skull. They are unnamed bones because they vary from person to person in number and shape. They are commonly found in relation to the frontal and occipital bones. It is important to know about these bones because they can mislead in the diagnosis of fracture of skull bones. We saw a series of sutural bones in the...
متن کاملThe Occurrence of Wormian Bones within the Cranial Sutures and Their Clinical Significance
Address for Correspondence: Mr. Vivek Kumar, Tutor, Department of anatomy, Chirayu medical college and hospital, Bhopal, (M P), India. Mobile:07415176681,E-Mail: [email protected] Introduction: The Wormian bones are irregular isolated bones, are not normally present within the cranial sutures. They may or may not be associated with clinical abnormalities. They appear in addition to the usua...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The FASEB Journal
سال: 2019
ISSN: 0892-6638,1530-6860
DOI: 10.1096/fasebj.2019.33.1_supplement.612.10