The Embryogenesis of the Human Skull: An Anatomic and Radiographic Atlas (Commonwealth Fund Publications)

An atlas described by Richard L.

Sidman as “a solid piece of research, executed with considerable esthetic as well as scholarly finesse, and [which] will serve as the definitive study on an important aspect of human fetal development.”The authors have documented the early development of the human skull in terms of gross size, shape, and the behavior of the individual bones com posing the skull with reference to their ossification centers, ossification rates, and relationships.

The data are presented in very high quality photographs and radiographs of the dried skull in several relevant orientations, low magnification color photomicrographs of well sectioned and stained specimens, and color photographs of an unusually fine series of transilluminated skulls prepared by the Spalteholz method.

Line drawings are also presented to assist in interpretation.