Widening of sutures

Case contributed by Brendon Friesen
Diagnosis certain

Presentation

Irritable.

Patient Data

Age: 10 days
Gender: Female
x-ray

Widening of the sagittal and coronal sutures suspicious for raised intracranial pressure.

Case Discussion

Widening of sagittal and coronal sutures suspicious for raised intracranial pressure.

Subsequent cranial ultrasound was normal.

No further neuroimaging was performed, and the patient is presumably well.

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