Neonatal Craniosynostosis
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Craniosynostosis
DESCRIPTION An 8-month-old baby boy presents with trigonocephaly and undergoes anterior cranial vault reconstruction for metopic craniosynostosis.
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Skull deformity in infants continues to be a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge. Deformational plagiocephaly is a common and somewhat benign cause of skull deformity in infants that must be distinguished from the more serious craniosynostosis, which occurs alone or as a syndrome. Examining an infant's head from above can help the physician distinguish true lambdoid synostosis from deformation...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Anesthesiology
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0003-3022
DOI: 10.1097/aln.0b013e318254d471