title: Complete medial parietosynostosis in female Indian dry skull.
abstract: Fusion of sagittal suture in adult skulls otherwise normal is a new anatomical variant having limited clinical significance and has not been reported so far as far as known to the author. Therefore, the study has been carried out. An adult female skull with complete fusion of sagittal suture was observed in KGMU Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India. The coronal and lambdoid sutures were not fused. The skull was not elongated either in front or posteriorly as usually observed in premature synostosis of isolated sagittal suture. The length of sagittal suture is 11.8 cm. The cranial index is 77, and cranial capacity is 928.4 mL. Dry bone study does not provide the correlation of defective skull with disease. This may cause increase in intracranial pressure, which may damage the brain. Thus, the information may be of utmost use to clinicians for management of enhanced intracranial pressure and to anatomists for new variant.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anatomy, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Rishikesh, Uttarakhand, India. nani_sahayal@rediffmail.com
authors.forename: Rajani
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Singh
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D044466:Asian People; D002102:Cadaver; D003398:Craniosynostoses / Q000473:pathology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007194:India