The point where the upper temporal line cuts the coronal suture is named the stephanion.
| Stephanion | |
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 Side view of the skull. (Stephanion visible at center top, but not labeled. Coronal suture is at tip of arrow, and stephanion is slightly above it.) | |
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| Latin | stephanion |
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The stephanion is found anterior to the euryon (the most lateral point of the skull), and hence, the supramarginal gyrus. The stephanion is located on the same coronal plane as Broca's area (Brodmann's area 44–45).[1]
References
edit- ^ Vigo, Vera; Cornejo, Kimberly; Nunez, Lizbeth; Abla, Adib; Rodriguez Rubio, Roberto (2020-06-15). "Immersive Surgical Anatomy of the Craniometric Points". Cureus. 12 (6): e8643. doi:10.7759/cureus.8643. ISSN 2168-8184. PMC 7366040. PMID 32685312.
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