Department of Radiology, Faculty of Medicine, Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University, Ankara, Turkey.
Department of Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine, Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University, Ankara, Turkey.
Folia Morphol (Warsz). 2022;81(3):749-755. doi: 10.5603/FM.a2021.0056. Epub 2021 Jun 1.
The aim of the study is to analyse the demographic and anatomical details of the Huschke's foramen (HF) which have not been previously studied and to present a new clinical perspective.
Multidetector computed tomography (MDCT) images of 495 patients were retrospectively evaluated. Presence of a HF, its' size, relations to side, age and gender were noted for every patient. Size of the foramen was measured in the axial plane, as well as on the reconstructed coronal and sagittal planes.
Of the 495 patients 99 (20%) had HF. There was no significant difference between females and males according to the presence of the HF and the side of the HF. When the dimension of the left- and the right-sided HFs were compared, there were no significant differences on none of the axes for the patients with unilateral or bilateral HF. There was no significant linear correlation between age and the dimension in the axial axis, the dimension in the sagittal axis and the dimension in the coronal axis CONCLUSIONS: The present work presenting morphologic and statistical variables of HF provides data for further studies which will indicate risk factors of herniation through HF. By the aid of MDCT, which is sensitive method for detection of the HF because of its thin sections, high spatial resolution, and multiplanar capabilities, lesions which were previously diagnosed as dehiscence were found to be defects.
本研究旨在分析此前尚未研究过的 Huschke 孔（HF）的人口统计学和解剖学细节，并提出新的临床观点。
回顾性评估了 495 名患者的多排螺旋 CT（MDCT）图像。对每位患者均记录 HF 的存在、大小、与侧别、年龄和性别之间的关系。在轴位平面以及冠状位和矢状位重建图像上测量了孔径的大小。
在 495 名患者中，99 名（20%）有 HF。HF 的存在和 HF 的侧别在女性和男性之间没有显著差异。当比较单侧和双侧 HF 患者的左右侧 HF 尺寸时，在所有轴上均无显著差异。HF 在轴位、矢状位和冠状位上的尺寸与年龄之间无显著线性相关性。
本研究提出了 HF 的形态学和统计学变量，为进一步研究提供了数据，这些研究将指出通过 HF 疝出的危险因素。借助 MDCT，其具有薄片、高空间分辨率和多平面能力，能够敏感地检测 HF，因此可以发现以前被诊断为裂隙的病变实际上是缺陷。
