Precuneus, a quadrangular gyms of the medial surface of the human parietal lobe, is bound by three primary brain sulci and by superior hemispheric border. Precise encephalometric data about precuneus are important in the studies of brain lateralization, sex dimorphism, and brain functions in general. In this study, total and visible (exstrasulcal) surface area of the precuneus were measured on 50 brains of the adult persons (31 male, and 29 female), together with the investigation of its relationship to the side (left/right) and gender (sex dimorphism). The average total surface area of the precuneus was 16.07 cm2 on the right (males 16.44 cm2, females 15.27 cm2), and 15.44 cm2 on the left (males 15.67 cm2, females 14.62 cm2). The average visible (extrasulcal) surface area of cortex of precuneus was 9.97 cm2 on the left (males 10.75 cm2, females 8.91 cm2), and 9.38 cm2 on the right (males 10.25 cm2, females 8.19 cm2). Exstrasulcal surface area of the left precuneus was larger, by 0.59 cm on the average, which was not statistically significant. Total surface area of precuneus of males was significantly larger on the right (16.44 cm2) (p<0.01) than on the left (15.67 cm2). In females it was also larger on the right (15.27 cm2) than on the left (14.62 cm2), but with no statistical significance. Visible (exstrasulcal) surface area of both, (left and right precuneus of males), was highly significantly larger in comparison with the females (p<0.001). The obtained results and other facts suggested that sex dimorphism of human brain, including precuneus, was present, but not always easily observable, studied or proven in all the details.
Digital morphometry is accurate method in encephalometric investigations. Our results suggest that the problem of sexual dimorphism of the corpus callosum is very complex, because the identical variables (section surface area or its perimeter) do not exhibit the same behavior in males and in females, implicating that these variables even cannot be simply compared between the sexes.
Our findings speak that myocardial regeneration is maybe possible and develops in human ischemic heart damages and that the myocardium is not a static organ without capacity of cell regeneration.
Accurate neuroanatomical localization requires exact determination of boundaries of subcallosal area. Therefore, standardized criteria were proposed for definition of subcallosal area.
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