Plagiocephaly in some 10-year-old children.

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  • P M DANBY
چکیده

Cranial asymmetry of the type known as plagiocephaly occurs frequently in infants and in adults (Clark, 1934; Orley, 1949; Potter, 1952). Very little precise information is available concerning the cause, or more probably the multiple causes, of this kind of cranial malformation. The term plagiocephaly signifies the flattening of diagonally opposite areas of the frontal and occipital bones, resulting in the slanting of the entire cranial outline in norma verticalis (Fig. 1). The condition is clinically unimportant. No functional disability appears to be associated with it. The double asymmetry involved does, however, raise an interesting problem in the dynamics of cranial growth. Some observations concerning cranial development in plagiocephalic children have been made in connexion with the Child Health Survey begun in Oxford in 1945. The condition was noted in approximately 5% of the infants between birth and 1 year of age taking part in this survey. It has been possible to re-examine some of these boys and girls approximately 10 years later, in 1956/57. The average age of the sample examined in 1956/57 was 9 8 years, with a range from 8 years to 115 years. Answers were sought to the following questions: 1. Do growth processes during the first decade of life eliminate all traces of infantile plagiocephaly? 2. Are there any factors in the antenatal records of these children which could be considered to cause or contribute to this condition?

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Archives of disease in childhood

دوره 37  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1962