Wróbel Grzegorz. Wormian bones - a case report of post-mortem examination. Journal of Education, Health and Sport. 2018;8(6):412-417. eISNN 2391-8306. DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1442512 http://ojs.ukw.edu.pl/index.php/johs/article/view/6144 https://pbn.nauka.gov.pl/sedno-webapp/works/880282 The journal has had 7 points in Ministry of Science and Higher Education parametric evaluation. Part B item 1223 (26/01/2017). 1223 Journal of Education, Health and Sport eISSN 2391-8306 7 © The Authors 2018; This article is published with open access at Licensee Open Journal Systems of Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, Poland Open Access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author (s) and source are credited. This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non commercial license Share alike. (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) which permits unrestricted, non commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited. The authors declare that there is no conflict of interests regarding the publication of this paper. Received: 01.06.2018. Revised: 15.06.2018. Accepted: 30.06.2018. Wormian bones - a case report of post-mortem examination Grzegorz Wróbel1 1 Department of Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Jan Kochanowski University, Kielce, Poland Correspondence: Department of Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Jan Kochanowski University, Al. IX Wieków Kielc 19A, 25-317 Kielce, Poland. Tel: 413496965. E-mail: grzegorz.wrobel@ujk.edu.pl Abstract Skull bones provide attachment to numerous facial expressions. Sometimes, as an anatomical variant, small irregular bones (ossicles) appear in the area already present and located at the seams of the cranial skull. These asymmetrical bones are also called sutural bones, which usually occur along the sutures. The observational study concerns bone material located in the Department of Anatomy of the Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce. During the analysis of human skulls, the occurrence of additional bones within the cranial sutures was observed. Morphologically, these bones have different shapes (oval, oblong, round, quadrilateral, polygonal, triangular) and sizes. Wormian bones are more common in the human skull than previously reported, therefore doctors or radiologists should know about this anatomical variant not to confuse it with the clinical aspect during surgery or imaging the skull. Keywords: skull, sutural bones, osteology