A family with proximal radioulnar synostosis segregating in three generations is described. Familial radioulnar synostosis is a rare anomaly; however, the sporadic form is a frequent feature in cases of sex chromosome abnormalities and other syndromes. This disorder has been reported in several ethnic groups, but this is apparently the first example from the black population.

Spondylocarpotarsal synostosis syndrome (SSS) is an autosomal recessive condition which is characterized by short stature, a carpotarsal coalition and a vertebral fusion, but without any rib anomaly. We are presenting a 7- year- old boy, who had uroliathiasis with the spondylocarpotarsal synostosis syndrome. This association, to the best of our knowledge, has not been reported so far.

The operative technique and result of treatment of traumatic radio-ulnar synostosis in two patients are described. In both, the treatment was excision of the cross-union and interposition of a free non-vascularised fat transplant. The functional result was excellent, and there was no evidence of regrowth of the synostosis at two and three years respectively.

The aim of this study was to report on a single center’s experience with spring-assisted cranial vault expansion (SAE) in patients Crouzon syndrome and sagittal suture synostosis. Strip craniotomy SAE has resulted successful outcomes low complication revision rates isolated scaphocephaly. However, recent suggests that synostosis (SS) who undergo are less favorable compared the those frontobipar...

Acute elbow extension deficit is an unusual phenomenon that has been observed in patients with congenital radioulnar synostosis. We report the case of an 11-year-old girl with congenital radioulnar synostosis who developed acute extension deficit of the right elbow and whose elbow range of motion was restored following lateral capsular release.

BACKGROUND Left-handedness is a highly conserved marker of cerebral functional laterality in the human population; elevated rates of left-handedness have been documented in patients with unilateral coronal synostosis treated with fronto-orbital advancement. The purpose of this study was to determine whether the prevalence of left-handedness in patients with nonsyndromic unilateral coronal synos...

The objective of this study was to determine whether children with nonsyndromic craniosynostosis and plagiocephaly without synostosis demonstrated cognitive and psychomotor delays when compared with a standardized population sample. This was the initial assessment of a larger prospective study, which involved 21 subjects with nonsyndromic craniosynostosis (mean age, 10.9 months) and 42 subjects...

In 1944, after a legal case of disputed paternity in Switzerland, Nievergelt reported three children with deformities like those ofthe alleged father. They had talipes with tarsal synostosis, dysplasia of the elbows with radio-ulnar synostosis and subluxation of the radial head, and dysplasia of the tibia and fibula with exostoses. So far as had been ascertained neither of the parents of the fa...

Different surgical procedures are used for the treatment of synostosis. Among them, suturectomy and sutural distraction osteogenesis (SDO) are suitable for young infant patients. In this report, we present the case of a young infant patient with a clear synostosis of the left coronal suture, which was treated by piezoelectric suturectomy combined with SDO and 2 internal distractors. One-year fo...