Volume : V, Issue : VIII, August - 2016

OBLITERATION OF CRANIAL VAULT SUTURES IN ADULT SKULLS

Dr. A. Himabindu, Dr. P. Neelima

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 The cranial vault of the human skull has sagittal suture,coronal suture and lambdoid suture. These cranial sutures are immovable joints of the skull. These joints remain patent allowing the growth of the ain in intrauterine life and early extrauterine life. They also facilitate the passage of fetus during vaginal delivery by non traumatic compression of fetal skull bones. If there is premature fusion of skull bones i.e.cranial synostosis,it leads to skull deformities compromising ain growth. In normal adult obliteration of these sutures starts at middle age continues till old age . The present study was conducted on 35 dried skulls of anatomy museum of GITAM institute of medical sciences and search,Visakhapatnam. Partial obliteration of sutures was observed in 6 skulls. This obliteration was seen in one of the sutures of the vault . suture union first occurs in sagittal suture at middle age and lambdoid suture is the last one that show obliteration. Literature described a skull without sutures..As these bones resist putrefaction they are useful in determination of age in mediocolegal cases

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Dr.A.Himabindu, Dr.P.Neelima OBLITERATION OF CRANIAL VAULT SUTURES IN ADULT SKULLS Global Journal For Research Analysis,Volume-5, Issue-8, August‾2016


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