Introduction: The frontotemporal type is characterised by a pterional sutural configuration between the frontal and temporal bones. The stellate kind of suture is formed by the fusion of the flat sphenoid, frontal, parietal, and temporal bones.
Methods: The kind of pterion based on sutural pattern was determined using Murphy’s classification into sphenoparietal, frontoparietal, stellate, and epipteric kinds on both the left and right sides of each skull. The centre of the circle, which connects the four bones that make up the pterion, is thought to be the centre of the pterion. Distance between the pterion’s centre and the external auditory meatus’s anterosuperior margin, P-PM: the distance between the pterion’s centre and the lateral margin of the optic canal, P-AM.
Results: The current investigation was carried out using 115 dried adult skull bones that were gathered from the central Karnataka region. On the right side, there were 115 pterions, and on the left, there were 115. The most frequent type of pterion was sphenoparietal (82.1%), followed by epipteric (26.1%), stellate (18.6%), and frontotemporal (17.8%).
Conclusions: The findings of this study may be useful for forensic pathologists, neurosurgeons, anatomists, and anthropologists in the region of the population under study.
