Presentation
Abnormal cranial perimeter.
Patient Data
Age: 7 months
Gender: Male
From the case:
Trigonocephaly
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The metopic suture is radio-opaque and there is a triangular shape of the frontal bone, compatible with trigonocephaly (metopic suture craniosynostosis).
From the case:
Trigonocephaly
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CT-scan confirms metopic suture craniosynostosis (trigonocephaly).
Case Discussion
Trigonocephaly is a type of craniosynostosis (craniostenose). Other type of craniostenosis :
- scaphocephaly: sagittal craniostenosis
- plagiocephaly: unilateral asymmetric or multiple craniostenosis
- oxycephaly: lambdoid, sagittal & coronal craniostenoses
- turricephaly (towering skull): bilambdoid or bicoronal craniostenosis
- brachycephaly: bilambdoid or bicoronal craniostenosis
- Kleeblattschädel (cloverleaf skull): bicoronal and bilambdoid craniostenosis
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