Open AccessTHE VARIABILITY AND THE RATIO OF THE PITUITARY GLAND AND PITUITARY FOSSA LINEAR PARAMETERS DEPENDING ON THE SKULL BASE ANGLE
Author(s) -
О Ю Алешкина,
Tatiana Bikbaeva,
Anton Devyatkin,
Марина Викторовна Маркеева,
Tatyana Zagorovskaya,
O.V. Konnova,
Irina Polkovova,
Valery Konnov
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
archiv euromedica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2199-885X
pISSN - 2193-3863
DOI - 10.35630/2199-885x/2021/11/4.14
Subject(s) - skull , pituitary gland , fossa , anatomy , temporal fossa , medicine , biology , hormone
Details of the morpho- & topometric variability of the skull elements and soft tissue formations in the area of the sphenoid bone body, as well as their relationship, serve as the basis for the choice of proper surgical accesses to the respective area. The aim of this study was to identify the typical variability of morphometric parameters and the volume ratio between the pituitary gland and the Turkish saddle pituitary fossa in mature age adults. The method of computer craniometry (involving 100 MRI of people of the first and second periods of their mature age, 22–60) was employed to study the typical variability of the pituitary fossa and pituitary gland linear parameters, regardless of gender. The obtained data revealed that the regularity of morphometric variability and the volume ratio of the pituitary gland and the pituitary fossa depend on the skull base bending angle.