coronal suture

The suture extending across the skull between the two parietal bones and the frontal bone.

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coronal suture

(Anatomy) the serrated line across the skull between the frontal bone and the parietal bones

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coro′nal su′ture

a seam across the top of the skull where the frontal and parietal bones meet.

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Noun

coronal suture - the suture between the parietal and frontal bones of the skull

sutura coronalis

braincase, brainpan, cranium - the part of the skull that encloses the brain

fibrous joint, sutura, suture - an immovable joint (especially between the bones of the skull)

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A 6x4x3 cm bone flap based on the right side, two thirds anterior and one third posterior to the coronal suture with sagittal sinus exposure was used.

TRANSCALLOSAL, TRANSFORAMINAL APPROACH FOR EXCISION OF COLLOID CYSTS OF THIRD VENTRICLE

To resolve this problem, we use the frontal bone symmetrization method with craniotomy in the posterior aspect of the fused coronal suture. The site of craniotomy in the affected side is determined by measuring the distance in the midline, lateral, and mid-way point in the unaffected side.

Surgical Correction of Unicoronal Craniosynostosis with Frontal Bone Symmetrization and Staggered Osteotomies

Brain three-dimensional tomography revealed synostosis in the coronal suture (Picture 2).

Two patients with Apert syndrome with different mutations: the importance of early diagnosis

The first two sides ran from the point Lambda to the point Bregma, and from the latter to that where the coronal suture first touched the sphenoid bone (Pterion).

Potential Donor Sites of the Parietal for Bone Grafting and its Relationship to the Cephalic Index/Sitios Donantes Potenciales del Hueso Parietal para Injerto Oseo y su Relacion con el Indice Cefalico

It is characterize by early union of the coronal suture giving typical skull and facial deformity and sydactaly of hands and feet.3

Apert Syndrome: Report of a rare congenital malformation

The coronal suture was studied in three parts on right and left side each; sagittal suture in four parts and lambdoid sutures in three parts each on right and left side.

Determination of age by study of closure of endocranial sutures

Coronal suture long, extended onto face and terminating at level of antennal bases (Figs.

A key to the genera of Empoascini (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae) in China, with descriptions of two new genera and two new species

There were operative scars over Keen's point (2.5 cm superior and posterior to the top of the pinna) and over the left Kocher's point (2-3 cm from midline approximately in the mid pupillary line and 1 cm anterior to the coronal suture) which was consistent with previous surgeries.

RETROGRADE VENTRICULOPERITONEAL SHUNT MIGRATION

With the position of the bregma as the reference point, the coronal zero plane (AP0) passed through the coronal suture. A1 and P1 were coronal planes 1 mm anterior and 1 mm posterior, respectively, to AP0.

Detection of acute cerebral hemorrhage in rabbits by magnetic induction

Of the 16 patients included in the study, 14 presented with single-suture craniosynostosis: 6 involved metopic suture; 5, sagittal suture; and 3, coronal suture.Nine cases were isolated fetal craniosynostosis, three were cases of Apert syndrome, and four also presented with associated CNS and non-CNS anomalies.

Shadowing sign equals fetal craniosynostosis

The most commonly encountered single suture synostoses are the sagittal suture (scaphocephaly) and the coronal suture (plagiocephaly).

Recognising congenital anomalies of the nervous system

Encephaloceles are classified as occipital when found at or posterior to the lambdoid suture, parietal when found between the lambdoid and the coronal suture and anterior when they occur anterior to the coronal suture.

Nasal encephalocele - a rare case report