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Normal and Abnormal Variations of Sella Turcica in Three Facial Types of Adolescent Iraqi Samples | ||
| Medical Journal of Babylon | ||
| Article 1, Volume 12, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 653-660 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Issam Merzah Abdullah; Lamis Khidher Mohammed | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Sella(S) turcica is a structure resemble a saddle and based on the roof of the sphenoid bone. For cephalometric tracing, sella point is one of the most commonly used cranial landmarks and it is located in the centre of the sella turcica of the skull. This study were to assess the shape and size of sella in a sample of Iraqi adolescent and with different skeletal classes. The study sample consist of (91) Iraqi adolescent subjects aged 10-16 years (47 females, 44 males); every subject provided with true lateral cephalometric radiograph. The sample was classified into three skeletal classes according to ANB angle. The size of Sella was measured using three linear measurements (S. length, S. depth, and S. diameter). It showed that most of the measurements of sella turcica were not different statistically among the skeletal classes. Normal sella was the predominant over the other morphological aberrations, while these morphologies occurred more frequently in class II and III. throughout the pubertal period specific sella turcica linear measurements cannot be obtained for each specific skeletal class; except between class I and II patterns, Sella depth was statistically higher in the former. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Sella Turcica; Pubertal growth; Size; Morphology | ||
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