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 Calvaria

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 Bones of calvaria
1-frontal
2-parital
3-occipital

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Sutures
A-coronal
B-sagittal
C-lambdoid

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Features
1-frontal sinus
2-frontal crest
3-groove for superior
sgittal sinus
4-groove for middle
meningeal artery
branches.
5-Granular foveolae
6-parital foramen

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 Norma Basalis
INTERNA

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 It's divided to three fossae

C.Fossa
Ant.
Post. C.
Fossa

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Ant. Cranial
fossa
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Bones forming
the floor of the
fossa
anteriorly :
1-orbital plates of
frontal bone
2- cribriform plate of
ethmoid bone

: Posteriorly
3-lesser wings of
sphenoid bone
4-jugum sphenoidal (
ant. Part of body of
sphenoid ) in the
middle
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 Boundaries
anteriorly &
laterally:
frontal bone

Posteriorly :
posterior
margins of the
lesser wings of
sphenoid bone
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 Particular features
1-frontal crest
2-jugum sphenoidal
3-orbital plates of frontal bone
4-lesser wings of sphenoid bone

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 1-cribriform plate of ethmoid bone
2-crista galli

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Foramina
1- Foramen caecum
2- Foramina of
cribriform plate of
ethmoid
3- Ant. Ethmoidal
foramen
4- post. Ethmoidal
foramen

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 Middel Cranial
Fossa

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 Bones forming the

floor of the fossa :

In the middle :
1- sella turcica –
2 2
1
formed by the body of

3
sphenoid
3
On either side :
2-greater wing of
sphenoid anteriorly

3- squamous temporal
4 4
bone laterally
4- petrous temporal bone
posteriorly

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Boundaries
anteriorly : 1 1
1-posterior margins of
2 2
4
the lesser wings of
sphenoid bone

2-anterior clinoid
process

Posteriorly :
3 3
3-superior borders of
petrous temporal bone
4-dorsum sellae

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 Features
1-sella turcica: turkish saddle formed by

1- hypophyseal (
3
3 pitutary ) fossa
2 2- tuberculum sellae 2

1
3-sulcus

5
4
5
chiasmaticus
4- dorsum sellae
5- post. Clinoid
processes
5 1 4
5

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greater wing of sphenoid

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petrous temporal bone
1- upper end of f. lacerum
2- Trigeminal impression
3- arcuate eminence
4- tegmen tympani
5- hiatus and groove for greater superfacial petrosal n.
6- hiatus and groove for lesser superfacial petrosal n.

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Foramina of the Middle Cranial fossa
1- Optic f. (canal)
2- Superior orbital fissure
3- F. Rotundum
4- F. Lacerum
5- F. Ovale
6- F. Spinosum

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 Minute foramina of middle cranial
1- Hiatus for greater
superfacial petrosal n
1- Hiatus for lesser
superfacial petrosal n
3- Vesalius (sphenoidal Infrtemporal fossa
emissary) f
4- f. Innominatum

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 Posterior
cranial fossa

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 Bones forming the
fossa:
Anterior to the foramen
magnum :
1-body of sphenoid
uniting with
2- basilar part of occipital bone
On either side of
foramen magnum :
3-posterior surface of petrous
temporal
4-mastoid temporal (inner surfac
Posterior to the
foramen magnum :
5-squamous part of occipital bone

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 Particular
features:
1-Clivus

Squamous
occipital bone
1- internal occipital protuberance
2- internal occipital crest
3- transverse sulcus

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Mastoid and petrous parts of
temporal bone
1- Superior petrosal sulcus
2- inferior petrosal sulcus
3- sigmoid sulcus
4-transver sulcus

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foramina of posterior cranial
fossa
1- internal auditory meatus
2- Jugular foramen
3- Hypoglossal canal
5- foramen magnum
6- mastoid emissary f

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