MEDRADSC 3L03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Sagittal Suture, Sella Turcica, Coronal Suture
9 Jun 2020
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No gown - only if they have a high collar with or without a button. Please remove the following: jewellry (earrings, necklace), dentures, eye glasses, piercings, hearing aids, bobby pins, no candy or gum. Need to place hands on the patient"s head/neck areas. Frontal, occipital, temporal (x2), parietal (x2), ethmoid, sphenoid. Cr on townes goes through this on ap. Coronal suture: separates the frontal & 2 paretials. Inferior junction of 2 parietal bones with their respective temporal bones = squamous suture. Bregma: anterior end of the sagittal suture (at the top) & posterior = lambda (posterior sagittal suture); joining point of the frontal & parietal bones. Body plane: midsagittal, interpupillary line (connects both pupils - used for positioning a lateral), angle of the mandible, mental point (where mandible meets in the center), supraorbital groove (above eyebrows) External occipital protuberance: posterior aspect of head - more prominent in males (palpable) Mental point - intersection of ramus of mandible.
