MORPHOLOGICAL SHAPES OF PINEAL GLAND IN SOUTH INDIAN POPULATION - AUTOPSY STUDY

P.PALLAVAN.; P.MANNAR MANNAN.; PROF.M.M.SANKAR

Volume : VIII, Issue : II, February - 2019

MORPHOLOGICAL SHAPES OF PINEAL GLAND IN SOUTH INDIAN POPULATION - AUTOPSY STUDY

P. Pallavan. , P. Mannar Mannan. , Prof. M. M. Sankar

Abstract :

Pineal gland is a neuroendocrine organ. It exists in different shapes in humans and often confuse the operating neurosurgeons in identifying the gland. We present our fresh autopsy study regarding various shapes of Pineal gland in south indian population MATERIALS AND METHODS:The study conducted in department of forensic medicine and neurosurgery department from August 2018 to December 2018 on 50 fresh autopsy cases done within 48 hours after death before the onset of ain putrefaction. After the skull cap is removed, cereal hemipheres harvested and pineal gland exposed by corpus callosotomy and studied. RESULTS: The present study shows the commonest shape of the pineal gland is Pine cone in 24 cases, pea shaped in 15 cases, fusiform shaped in 9 cases, cone shaped one case and piriform shaped in two cases