BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Jugular foraminal stenosis (JFS) or atresia (JFA) with collateral emissary veins (EV) has been documented in syndromic craniosynostosis. Disruption of EV during surgery can produce massive hemorrhage. Our purpose was to describe the prevalence of prominent basal emissary foramina (EF), which transmit enlarged EV, in syndromic craniosynostosis. Our findings were correlated...

Unnamed foramina are known to be present in the mandible. The present research paper reports the presence of an accessory foramen on the medial surface of the mandible, highlighting its anatomico-radiological details. Accessory foramina in the mandible have been known to transmit branches of nerves supplying the roots of the teeth. Nerve block techniques by local anaesthetics might fail if any ...

In the past few decades, a number of studies have reported that accessory foramina are located on the internal aspect of the mandible, indicating their potential importance for effective and successful clinical procedures. The aim of this study is to evaluate adult, infantile, and fetal human mandibles for occurrence of accessory foramina. To our knowledge, this is the first time that an attemp...

AIM To determine the position and shape of the apical foramina in posterior teeth derived from an Indian population. METHODOLOGY A total of 800 freshly extracted maxillary and mandibular premolar and molar teeth from a native Haryana population were collected. Apices of teeth were stained with methylene blue and then examined stereomicroscopically (40x). The following observations were made: ...

Address for Correspondence: Dr. Poornima B, Assistant Professor, Department of Anatomy, Vijayanagar Institute of Medical Sciences, Ballari, Karnataka, India. E-Mail: [email protected] Background: Femur is the long bone of thigh. Femur is richly vascularized bone deriving its arterial input from umpteen vessels. The upper end of the femur in general showed rich vascularization. Objectives: To ob...

The purpose of the present study was to determine the incidence, size, location, course, and content of the foramina and bony canals located on the lingual side of the mandibular midline. Fifty dry human mandibles were morphometrically analyzed by measuring the distances of these midline foramina from the mandibular base and the dimensions of these foramina and their bony canals. In addition, m...

To cite: Razik A, Goyal A, Gupta AK. BMJ Case Rep Published online: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/bcr-2015212283 DESCRIPTION A 5-year-old boy, born to first-degree consanguineous parents, presented with failure to thrive, recurrent respiratory infections and progressive head deformity since birth, with recent difficulty in walking. Physical examination revealed pallor, scaphocepha...

BACKGROUND Knowledge regarding nutrient foramina of bones is useful in surgical procedures such as microvascular bone transfer in order to preserve the circulation. The objective of the present study was to study the morphology and topography of nutrient foramina and to determine the foraminal index of the lower limb long bones to provide detailed data on such features. METHOD The study compr...

Conventional two-dimensional Fourier transform (2DFT) MR evaluation of osteophytic disease of the cervical neural foramina is limited by section thickness, signal-to-noise problems, and CSF flow artifacts. We evaluated the role of thin-section, high-resolution, gradient-refocused three-dimensional Fourier transform (3DFT) MR imaging in assessing degenerative foraminal narrowing in the cervical ...

Observations were made on 299 dry human mandibles and 21 autopsy heads. Foramina were observed in the inner surface of the alveolar part in 32% of the mandibles investigated. The diameter of the foramina varied between 0.4 mm and 1.6 mm. In most instances foramina were present between the lower medial and lateral incisors but in some cases they were also observed in the midline or between the l...