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Craniosynostosis Management: Multimedia
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 | Media file 1: Craniosynostosis management. Lateral view of a child with sagittal craniosynostosis demonstrating frontal and occipital bossing and dolichocephaly. |
 | Media file 2: Craniosynostosis management. Superior view of a child with sagittal craniosynostosis demonstrating frontal bossing bilaterally and dolichocephaly. |
 | Media file 3: Craniosynostosis management. Child with bicoronal synostosis with exorbitism and recessed frontoorbital bar. |
 | Media file 4: Craniosynostosis management. Child with bicoronal synostosis with exorbitism and recessed frontoorbital bar in association with mild turricephaly. |
 | Media file 5: Craniosynostosis management. Child with right unicoronal synostosis demonstrating asymmetry of the orbits and widened palpebral fissure on the left in association with superiorly displaced left eyebrow. Notice the asymmetry of the face and deviation of the facial axis to the contralateral side. |
 | Media file 6: Craniosynostosis management. Superior view of a child with metopic craniosynostosis showing trigonocephaly (narrowing of the anterior calvarium). |
 | Media file 7: Craniosynostosis management. Frontal view of a child with metopic craniosynostosis demonstrating a metopic ridge. |
 | Media file 8: Craniosynostosis management. Superior view of a 3-dimensional CT scan demonstrating a fused sagittal suture with frontal bossing and patent coronal sutures. |
 | Media file 9: Craniosynostosis management. A child with metopic craniosynostosis with ridging at the site of the metopic suture and hypoplasia of the orbits. |
 | Media file 10: Craniosynostosis management. Superior view of 3-dimensional CT scan of a child with metopic craniosynostosis and patent coronal and sagittal sutures. Note the trigonocephaly. |
 | Media file 11: Craniosynostosis management. Lateral view of 3-dimensional CT scan of a child with bicoronal synostosis. Note the recession of the frontoorbital bar and turricephaly. |
 | Media file 12: Craniosynostosis management. Frontal view of a 3-dimensional CT scan demonstrating turricephaly and recession of the frontoorbital bar. |
 | Media file 13: Craniosynostosis management. Superior view of a 3-dimensional CT scan demonstrating bicoronal synostosis with significant recession of the frontoorbital bar and the frontal bones. Both the frontoorbital bar and the frontal bones lie dorsal to the malar eminences and the maxillary anterior nasal spine. |
 | Media file 14: Craniosynostosis management. Child with right unicoronal synostosis demonstrating asymmetry of the orbits. The right orbit is narrower and taller compared with the contralateral side, and deviation of the facial axis is present. |
 | Media file 15: Craniosynostosis management. A 3-dimensional CT scan demonstrating right unicoronal synostosis with a fused right coronal suture, patent metopic suture, left coronal suture, and sagittal sutures. The right frontoorbital bar and the right frontal bone are more dorsal compared with the contralateral side, which demonstrates frontal bossing. |
 | Media file 16: Craniosynostosis management. A 3-dimensional CT scan showing bilambdoid craniosynostosis. |
 | Media file 17: Craniosynostosis management. A 3-dimensional MRI examination of the brain demonstrating the cortical sulci and gyri architecture. |
 | Media file 18: Craniosynostosis management. MRI examination of the brain of a child with unicoronal craniosynostosis demonstrating an abnormal brain cortex. |
 | Media file 19: Craniosynostosis management. Position of a child with sagittal craniosynostosis. The child is supported on a bean bag in a prone position with the neck held in cervical extension. This position allows access to the anterior and posterior aspects of the calvarium to allow correction of frontal bossing and occipital bullet. |
 | Media file 20: Craniosynostosis management. Preoperative photograph of a child with sagittal craniosynostosis. |
 | Media file 21: Craniosynostosis management. Preoperative photograph of a child with sagittal craniosynostosis. |
 | Media file 22: Craniosynostosis management. Preoperative photograph of a child with sagittal craniosynostosis. |
 | Media file 23: Craniosynostosis management. Preoperative CT image of a child with sagittal craniosynostosis. |
 | Media file 24: Craniosynostosis management. Preoperative CT image of a child with sagittal craniosynostosis. |
 | Media file 25: Craniosynostosis management. Preoperative CT image of a child with sagittal craniosynostosis. |
 | Media file 26: Craniosynostosis management. Preoperative CT image of a child with sagittal craniosynostosis. |
 | Media file 27: Craniosynostosis management. A 1-year postoperative photograph of a child with sagittal craniosynostosis. |
 | Media file 28: Craniosynostosis management. A 1-year postoperative photograph of a child with sagittal craniosynostosis. |
 | Media file 29: Craniosynostosis management. A 1-year postoperative photograph of a child with sagittal craniosynostosis. |
 | Media file 30: Craniosynostosis management. A 1-year postoperative CT image of a child with sagittal craniosynostosis. |
 | Media file 31: Craniosynostosis management. A 1-year postoperative CT image of a child with sagittal craniosynostosis. |
 | Media file 32: Craniosynostosis management. A 1-year postoperative CT image of a child with sagittal craniosynostosis. |
 | Media file 33: Craniosynostosis management. Preoperative photograph of a child with unicoronal craniosynostosis. |
 | Media file 34: Craniosynostosis management. Preoperative photograph of a child with unicoronal craniosynostosis. |
 | Media file 35: Craniosynostosis management. Preoperative photograph of a child with unicoronal craniosynostosis. |
 | Media file 36: Craniosynostosis management. Preoperative CT image of a child with unicoronal craniosynostosis. |
 | Media file 37: Craniosynostosis management. Preoperative CT image of a child with unicoronal craniosynostosis. |
 | Media file 38: Craniosynostosis management. Preoperative CT image of a child with unicoronal craniosynostosis. |
 | Media file 39: Craniosynostosis management. Preoperative CT image of a child with unicoronal craniosynostosis. |
 | Media file 40: Craniosynostosis management. A 1-year postoperative photograph of a child with unicoronal craniosynostosis. |
 | Media file 41: Craniosynostosis management. A 1-year postoperative photograph of a child with unicoronal craniosynostosis. |
 | Media file 42: Craniosynostosis management. A 1-year postoperative photograph of a child with unicoronal craniosynostosis. |
 | Media file 43: Craniosynostosis management. A 1-year postoperative CT image of a child with unicoronal craniosynostosis. |
 | Media file 44: Craniosynostosis management. A 1-year postoperative CT image of a child with unicoronal craniosynostosis. |
 | Media file 45: Craniosynostosis management. A 1-year postoperative CT image of a child with unicoronal craniosynostosis. |
 | Media file 46: Craniosynostosis management. A 1-year postoperative CT image of a child with unicoronal craniosynostosis. |
 | Media file 47: Craniosynostosis management. Preoperative photograph of a child with bicoronal craniosynostosis. |
 | Media file 48: Craniosynostosis management. Preoperative photograph of a child with bicoronal craniosynostosis. |
 | Media file 49: Craniosynostosis management. Preoperative CT image of a child with bicoronal craniosynostosis. |
 | Media file 50: Craniosynostosis management. Preoperative CT image of a child with bicoronal craniosynostosis. |
 | Media file 51: Craniosynostosis management. Preoperative CT image of a child with bicoronal craniosynostosis. |
 | Media file 52: Craniosynostosis management. A 1-year postoperative photograph of a child with bicoronal craniosynostosis. |
 | Media file 53: Craniosynostosis management. A 1-year postoperative photograph of a child with bicoronal craniosynostosis. |
 | Media file 54: Craniosynostosis management. A 1-year postoperative CT image of a child with bicoronal craniosynostosis. |
 | Media file 55: Craniosynostosis management. A 1-year postoperative CT image of a child with bicoronal craniosynostosis. |
 | Media file 56: Craniosynostosis management. A 1-year postoperative CT image of a child with bicoronal craniosynostosis. |
 | Media file 57: Craniosynostosis management. Preoperative photograph of a child with metopic craniosynostosis. |
 | Media file 58: Craniosynostosis management. Preoperative photograph of a child with metopic craniosynostosis. |
 | Media file 59: Craniosynostosis management. Preoperative CT image of a child with metopic craniosynostosis. |
 | Media file 60: Craniosynostosis management. Preoperative CT image of a child with metopic craniosynostosis. |
 | Media file 61: Craniosynostosis management. Intraoperative photograph of insertion of tenon-and-mortise bone graft to increase width of the frontoorbital bar. |
 | Media file 62: Craniosynostosis management. Intraoperative photograph of insertion of tenon-and-mortise bone graft to increase width of the frontoorbital bar. |
 | Media file 63: Craniosynostosis management. Intraoperative photograph of insertion of tenon-and-mortise bone graft to increase width of the frontoorbital bar. |
 | Media file 64: Craniosynostosis management. A 1-year postoperative photograph of a child with metopic craniosynostosis. |
 | Media file 65: Craniosynostosis management. A 1-year postoperative photograph of a child with metopic craniosynostosis. |
 | Media file 66: Craniosynostosis management. A 1-year postoperative CT image of a child with metopic craniosynostosis. |
 | Media file 67: Craniosynostosis management. A 1-year postoperative CT image of a child with metopic craniosynostosis. |
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Keywords
craniosynostosis, plagiocephaly, abnormal head shapes, fused sutures, deformational plagiocephaly, head deformity, cranial deformity, cranium deformity, deformed cranium, fused cranial sutures, abnormal skull fusion, skull deformity, deformed skull, scaphocephaly, boat skull, brachycephaly, short skull, unicoronal synostosis, trigonocephaly, triangular skull, lambdoid synostosis, oxycephaly, turricephaly, towering skull, kleeblattschadel, cloverleaf skull, ICP, increased intracranial pressure, craniotomy, increased ICP, sagittal synostosis, bicoronal synostosis, metopic synostosis
