DEVELOPMENTAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL DETERMINANTS OF ACCESSORY CRANIAL SUTURES AND THEIR DIAGNOSTIC MISINTERPRETATION AS SKULL FRACTURES IN CLINICAL AND FORENSIC PRACTICE
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Keywords
Accessory cranial sutures, developmental biology, environmental influences, diagnostic misinterpretation, forensic implications, cranial morphogenesis
Abstract
Accessory cranial sutures which are the extra little joints that in rare cases appear in a developing skull are normally the leftover signs of how the way in which skull formed before birth. They’re not very much harmful; they’re just the small seams which actually didn’t fully disappear as the bones often grew. Such other sutural lines may be harmless and the rest of the sutural lines may be the ones that confuse the clinicians and the forensic scientists when they cause skull fractures that are the stake holders in the determination of the trauma cases and the medicolegal cases are high. Such misconception can be the basis of a false clinical diagnosis, intervention, and shocking outcomes of erroneous definition of the mechanism of injury and manifested negativity of abuse or murder. Formation and maintenance of accessory sutures have been discussed in this paper in a holistic, integrative and fashion, developmental, genetic and mechanical, and environmental fashion. It also studies imaging peculiarities that may be deployed to assign them in terms of fracture, diagnostic errors reasons, and so this incriminates them in neurosurgery, radiology, paediatrics, anthropology, and general forensic medicine. In the developmental biology, biomechanics, evolutionary anatomy and applied imaging science, accessory sutures have been found as an indirect record of the defects and morphogenesis of the cranial morphogenesis weaknesses. These not only appear in the technical description of cranial pathology, but one of defence which should be applied on the legal and clinical explanation.
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Dr Akanksha Sharma
Assistant Professor, Department of Anatomy,
Index Medical College & Research Centre, Indore (MP), India
Dr Vimal Modi
Professor and Head, Department of Anatomy,
Index Medical College & Research Centre, Indore (MP), India
