Parietal foramen

The parietal foramen (from Latin foramen “opening”, “hole” and belonging to the parietal bone “ parietal bone”) is an opening at the upper edge of the parietal bone through which the parietal emissary vein runs as a connection with the superior sagittal sinus .

Sometimes a branch of the occipital artery also passes through it.

The presence and size of these foramina can vary widely.

An abnormal enlargement of these holes is found in the congenital foramina parietalia permagna disease.

Surface-rendered CT scan of the skull with parietal foramina on the right side

Individual evidence

↑ Entry on Foramen_parietale in Flexikon , a Wiki of the DocCheck company

↑ W. Schuster, D. Färber (editor): Children's radiology. Imaging diagnostics. Vol. I, p. 383, Springer 1996, ISBN 3-540-60224-0 .

↑ Parietal Foramina. In: Orphanet (Rare Disease Database).

[flexikon-1] Entry on Foramen_parietale in Flexikon , a Wiki of the DocCheck company

[2] W. Schuster, D. Färber (editor): Children's radiology. Imaging diagnostics. Vol. I, p. 383, Springer 1996, ISBN 3-540-60224-0 .

[3] Parietal Foramina. In: Orphanet (Rare Disease Database).