Anatomy
The skull is divided into two sets of bones.
What are the skull & facial bones?
Disruptions in the continuity of bones in the skull.
What is a skull fracture?
KVp range for skull series.
What is 70-90 kvp?
The sphenoid bone articulates with 7 bones.
What are the frontal, R&L parietal, R&L Temporal, Ethmoid, and occipital?
Joints of the cranium.
What are sutures?
The bones of the skull floor.
Ethmoid, sphenoid, R temporal, L temporal
New and abnormal growths.
What are neoplasms?
Not used because size is over 10 cm.
What is a grid?
The ethmoid bone articulates with 2 cranial bones.
What are the frontal and sphenoid?
Skull joints have this classification.
What are fibrous joints?
The most vulnerable part of the skull to fracture.
enlarged and eroded aspects of sella turcica on a radiographic image.
What is a pituitary adenoma?
The only non-trauma AP projection.
What is the AP Axial (Townes) Method?
The frontal bone articulates with 4 cranial bones.
What are the R&L parietals, sphenoid, and ethmoid?
Skull joints do not move.
What are amphiarthrodial joints?
Three small foramina on the greater wings of the sphenoid bone.
What is the foramen rotundum, foramen ovale, and foramen spinosum?
Clinical indication that is best viewed on a horizontal beam.
What is a basal skull fracture?
The alternative for the Towne method.
What is the PA axial Haas Method?
The temporal bone articulates with 3 cranial bones.
What are the occipital, sphenoid, and corresponding parietal?
The suture that separates the parietal bone from the temporal bone.
What is the squamosal suture?
The SOG corresponds to these anatomical parts in the skull.
What is the anterior fossa, level of the orbital plate, and the highest level of the facial bone?
Benign or cystic mass most common in the middle ear.
What is a cholesteatoma?
Changes made to the Caldwell method to better visualize the superior orbital fissures, foramen rotundum, and inferior orbital rim.
What is increasing the angle to 25-30 degrees?
The occipital bone articulates with 6 bones.
The suture that separates the two parietal bones from the occipital bone.
What is the lambdoidal suture?