Home > Journals > Indian Journal of Anatomy

Indian Journal of Anatomy

Submit your article Read this Journals View all journals
Full Text (PDF)
Case Report

Skulls with Multiple Wormian Bones: Reports of Two Cases

Jaiswal I., Post Graduate Student, Department of Anatomy, Government Medical College, Nagpur, Maharashtra 440009, India. , Jaiswal I.1 , Dofe M.Y.2 , Kasote A.P.3 , Fulpatil M.P.4

Author Information

Licence:



Indian Journal of Anatomy 6(4):p 555-558, Oct-Dec 2017. | DOI: DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.21088/ija.2320.0022.6417.28

How Cite This Article:

Timeline

Received : N/A         Accepted : N/A          Published : N/A

Abstract

Wormian bones have been described as small irregular ossicles which are present within the cranial sutures and fontanelles. A vast majority of these wormian bones are located in the lambdoid suture (lambda). Two dry adult human skulls were found during medicolegal examination out of which one skull showed persistent metopic suture and a series of sutural bones while the other showed the presence of only wormian bones. The incidence of metopic suture varies in different races and can be due to various causes. The metopic suture is a dentate-type suture extending from the nasion to the bregma. It fuses at around 18 months to 7 years after birth, by which time most of the increase in breadth of the forehead is complete. When the metopic suture persists into adulthood it is known as “metopism”. Presence of more than ten sutural bones is unusual. It may warrant further investigations to identify an underlying pathology of hereditary disorder that has affected the skull growth at an early stage of development. The presence of metopic suture simulates the fracture of frontal bone, therefore it should be properly ruled out in x-rays by radiologists and neurosurgeons. The anatomical knowledge of Wormian bones is clinically important as they are markers for diseases and important in the primary diagnosis of brittle bone disease like osteogenesis imperfecta.

Keywords: Lambdoid Suture; Wormian Bones; Metopic Suture. 

References

No records found.


About this article

Cite this article

Licence:



Received Accepted Published
N/A N/A N/A
DOI: DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.21088/ija.2320.0022.6417.28

Keywords


Article Level Metrics

Last Updated

Sunday 20 September 2026, 22:36:25 (IST)

5038

Accesses

6
601
00

Citations


NA
NA
NA

Download citation


Article Keywords

Keyword Highlighting

Highlight selected keywords in the article text.


Timeline

Received N/A
Accepted N/A
Published N/A

licence




Access this article

Reprint Order Form
Buy this Article
Institutional Subscriptions

Share