An Osteological Study of Incidence, Morphometry and Clinical Correlations of Carotico-Clinoid Foramen in Dried Adult Human Skulls

摘要

ABSTRACT The carotico-clinoid foramen was first described by Henle (1855), as an osseous bridge between the tip of the middle and anterior clinoid processes. The carotico-clinoid ligament connecting anterior and middle clinoid processes sometime get ossified forming the carotico-clinoid foramen which transmits one of the segment of internal carotid artery. The existence of a bony or osseous carotico-clinoid foramen may cause compression, tightening or stretching of the internal carotid artery, .