An unusually-wide human bregmatic Wormian bone: Anatomy, tomographic description, and possible significance

Surgical and Radiologic Anatomy

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 683-687

  Barberini, Fabrizio ^a   Bruner, Emiliano ^b   Cartolari, Roberto ^c   Franchitto, Gianfranco ^a   Heyn, Rosemarie ^a   Ricci, Francesca ^a   Manzi, Giorgio ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROME FORO ITALICO   (Italy)

^c BELCOLLE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Digital endocast; Gross anatomy; Human skull; Ossicle at bregma; Wormian bones

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ANTERIOR FONTANEL; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CRANIAL SUTURE; DURA MATER; FEMALE; FRONTAL BONE; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; HUMAN; OCCIPITAL BONE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKULL; TEMPORAL BONE;

AGED; CRANIAL SUTURES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; SKULL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 54949136473     PISSN: 09301038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00276-008-0371-0     Document Type: Article

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