Skull Flashcards
Helps to visualize frontal & some paranasal sinuses
PA caldwell
Evaluation of occipital bone
AP towns
Examine external & internal tables of the cranial bones & diploe; mandibular lesions; craniocervical junction
Lateral skull
Main sinuses seen on lateral skull
Frontal, ethmoid, sphenoid, maxillary
Main sutures on lateral skull
Coronal, lambdoid, middle meningeal grooves
Evaluate paranasal sinuses
PA waters
Orbital injury (blow out fracture) effects what sinus
Maxillary
Examination of the teeth & maxilla & mandible
Panorex view
Benign bone cyst that does not require treatment
Leave alone finding
Stafne mandibular bone cyst
Benign non inflammatory non neoplastic odontogenic cyst to tooth & enamel layer(3rd molars)
Dentigerous cyst aka follicular cyst
Benign growth of cortical bone
Leave alone
Mandibular torus
Lots of teeth
Supernumerary teeth (also cleidocranial dysostosis - dysplasia)
Unfused metopic suture, absent clavicles, & supernumerary teeth
Cleidocranial displasia
Small ossicles within cranial suture lines
Wormain bones
Thickening of the frontal bones; benign overgrowth of inner table of frontal bone
Hyperostosis frontalis interna