Frontal suture

Frontal suture
Bone: Frontal suture
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Skull at birth, seen from above
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Frontal bone. Outer surface. ("Remains of frontal suture" identified at center.)
Latin sutura frontalis
Gray's subject #46 178

The frontal suture is a dense connective tissue structure that divides the two halves of the frontal bone of the skull in infants and children. It usually disappears by the age of six, with the two halves of the frontal bone being fused together. If the suture is not present at birth because both frontal bones have fused (craniosynostosis), it will cause a keel-shaped deformity of the skull called "trigonocephaly."

It is present in a fetal skull so that the skull can bend and is very elastic at the time of birth. The baby's head bends when coming out of the mother's womb. The space is filled as the child grows older.

Persistent Metopic Suture

In some individuals the suture can persist (totally or partly) into adulthood, it is referred to as a metopic suture (or a persistent metopic suture). The suture can either bisect the frontal bone and run from nasion to bregma or persist as a partial metopic suture(see image of frontal bone)[1] (where part of the suture survives and is connected to either bregma or nasion) or as an isolated metopic fissure. Metopic sutures are of no clinical significance, although they can be mistaken for cranial fractures.[2] As metopic sutures are visible in radiographs they can be useful for the forensic identification of human skeletal remains; metopic sutures should not be confused with supranasal sutures (a small zig-zag shaped suture located at and/or immediately superior to the glabella).

See also

References

  1. ^ Bademci G, Kendi T and Agalar F. 2007. "Persistent metopic suture can mimic the skull fractures in the emergency setting?" Neurocirugía 18: 238.
  2. ^ Bademci G, Kendi T and Agalar F. 2007. "Persistent metopic suture can mimic the skull fractures in the emergency setting?" Neurocirugía 18: 238-240.

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