Tag: skull

Sixteen African giant rats (Cricetomys gambianus Waterhouse), consisting of 8 male and 8 female rats, were used to determine neurocranial measurements of the skulls. The mean neurocranial volume was 5.06 ± 0.05 mL, neurocranial length was 3.33 ± 0.08 cm, and the neurocranial height and index were 1.39 ± 0.04 cm and 41.74%, respectively...

Bone scintigraphy is frequently performed to investigative many skeletal abnormalities (such as primary tumoural and  metastatic involvement of the skeleton, infections of the bone and soft tissue, fractures and other traumatic lesions of the skeleton, etc.) in daily nuclear medicine practice. Interpretation of a skeletal scintigraphic study requires not only images of high quality, but careful scrutiny, bearing in mind the normal variants and evaluation in light of the particular clinical problem [1]...

Selective brain cooling is a special mechanism of maintaining brain temperature at the level below that of whole body temperature, especially in conditions of hyperthermia [1]...

The foramen ovale is of great surgical and diagnostic importance in procedures like percutaneous trigeminal rhizotomy for trigeminal neuralgia, transfacial fine needle aspiration technique in perineural spread of tumour, and electroencephalographic analysis. This study presents the anatomic variations in dimensions, appearance, number of foramen ovale (FO), and presence of pterygoalar bar and pterygoalar foramen...

The aim of the study was the retrospective morphological analysis of selected structures of the middle cranial fossa, i.e. foramen ovale and superior orbital fissure, in relation to the external head and cranial diameters in adults from the Lublin region (Poland)...

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...

The anterior clinoid process (ACP) is an intracranial, medial extension of the lesser sphenoid wing and represents a roof to the anterior segment of the cavernous sinus [16]. The process projects posteriorly and medially in the middle cranial fossa and constitutes a boundary of the caroticoclinoid foramen if the ACP is merged with the top of the medial clinoid process [10]. The ACP is closely related to many vital neurovascular structures, including the internal carotid artery (ICA) adjacent to the medial and posterior aspect of the ACP [8, 22]...