Table 3.
Comparison of the percentage of pteria types with other population Type of pterion
| Author | Population | Sample size |
Sphenoparietal (%) |
Frontotemporal (%) |
Epipteric (%) |
Stellate (%) |
| Murphy (1956) | Australian | 368 | 73.23 | 7.75 | 18.34 | 0.68 |
| Ersoy et al (2003) | Turkish | 300 | 96 | 3.8 | 9 | 0.2 |
| Oguz et al (2004) | Turkish | 26 | 88 | 10 | 2 | - |
| Mwachaka et al (2008) |
Kenyans | 50 | 66 | 15 | 12 | 7 |
| Zalawadia et al (2010) |
West India | 42 | 91.7 | 2.4 | 4.8 | 1.2 |
| Ilayperuma et al (2010) |
Sri Lanka | 52 | 74.04 | 4.81 | 21.15 | - |
| Ma et al (2012) | New Zealandian | 76 | 78.3 | 5.2 | 16.4 | - |
| Ukoha et al (2013) | South East Nigerian | 56 | 75.5 | 19.6 | 3.6 | 1.8 |
| Sunday et al (2013) | Nigerian | 62 | 86.1 | 8.3 | - | 5.6 |
| Cimen et al (2019) | Middle and South |
75 | 82 | 4.66 | 10.66 | 2.66 |
| Anatolian | ||||||
| Kamath et al (2016) | India | 72 | 79.25 | 10.25 | 6.3 | 4.2 |
| Oguz et al (2004) | Turkish | 26 | 88 | 0 | 2 | 10 |
| Shenoy et al (2012) | India | 75 | 77.33 | 0 | 21.33 | 1.34 |
| Lee et al (2001) | Korean | 149 | 76.5 | 0 | 40.3 | 0 |
| Present Study | Unknown | 90 | 70.6 | 0 | 15.6 | 2.8 |