TY - JOUR
T1 - Medial sigmoid depression
T2 - A panoramic pseudoforamen in the upper ramus
AU - Langlais, Robert P.
AU - Glass, Birgit Junfin
AU - Bricker, Steven L.
AU - Miles, Dale A.
PY - 1983/6
Y1 - 1983/6
N2 - A radiolucency resembling a foramen was observed on a number of panoramic radiographs in the upper ramus just below and slightly anterior to the sigmoid notch. The radiolucency may be unilateral or bilateral and does not correspond to the location of any known major foramina in this region. Eighty-eight skulls with mandibles were examined, and representative samples were photographed and radiographed in order to replicate this foramen-like radiolucency. The radiolucency corresponded to an osseous depression observable in some specimens in the medial portion of the ramus just below the sigmoid notch area. The incidence of this phenomenon in a study of 1, 986 panoramic radiographs was also determined.
AB - A radiolucency resembling a foramen was observed on a number of panoramic radiographs in the upper ramus just below and slightly anterior to the sigmoid notch. The radiolucency may be unilateral or bilateral and does not correspond to the location of any known major foramina in this region. Eighty-eight skulls with mandibles were examined, and representative samples were photographed and radiographed in order to replicate this foramen-like radiolucency. The radiolucency corresponded to an osseous depression observable in some specimens in the medial portion of the ramus just below the sigmoid notch area. The incidence of this phenomenon in a study of 1, 986 panoramic radiographs was also determined.
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U2 - 10.1016/0030-4220(83)90385-7
DO - 10.1016/0030-4220(83)90385-7
M3 - Article
C2 - 6576296
AN - SCOPUS:0020773164
VL - 55
SP - 635
EP - 638
JO - Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine, Oral Pathology and Oral Radiology
JF - Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine, Oral Pathology and Oral Radiology
SN - 2212-4403
IS - 6
ER -