Medicine:Turricephaly

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Turricephaly
Other namesOxycephaly,[1] Acrocephaly, Hypsicephaly,[1] Oxycephalia,[1] Steeple head,[1] Tower head,[1] Tower skull, High-head syndrome, Turmschädel[2]
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SpecialtyDysmorphology
Symptomsreduced head length and width for age

Turricephaly is a type of cephalic disorder where the head appears tall with a small length and width.[3][4] It is due to premature closure of the coronal suture plus any other suture, like the lambdoid,[5] or it may be used to describe the premature fusion of all sutures.[2] It should be differentiated from Crouzon syndrome. Oxycephaly (or acrocephaly) is a form of turricephaly where the head is cone-shaped, and is the most severe of the craniosynostoses.[4]

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Common associations

It may be associated with:[6]

Conditions with turricephaly

Conditions with turricephaly include:[7][8]

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References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Mosby's Medical Dictionary (8th ed.). Elsevier. 2009. http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/oxycephaly. Retrieved 24 August 2013. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 Bodian, Martin (May 6, 1950). "Oxycephaly.". Journal of the American Medical Association 143 (1): 15–8. doi:10.1001/jama.1950.02910360017006. PMID 15415226. 
  3. "Turricephaly". National Human Genome Research Institute. https://elementsofmorphology.nih.gov/index.cgi?tid=b1c6362251bad427. 
  4. 4.0 4.1 Allanson, Judith E.; Cunniff, Christopher; Hoyme, H. Eugene; McGaughran, Julie; Muenke, Max; Neri, Giovanni (January 2009). "Elements of morphology: standard terminology for the head and face". American Journal of Medical Genetics. Part A 149A (1): 6–28. doi:10.1002/ajmg.a.32612. ISSN 1552-4833. PMID 19125436. 
  5. "oxycephaly". TheFreeDictionary. http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/oxycephaly. 
  6. Weerakkody, Yuranga; Goel, Ayush. "Oxycephaly". Radiopaedia.org. http://radiopaedia.org/articles/oxycephaly. 
  7. "Turricephaly (Concept Id: C5399823)" (in en). https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/medgen/1726910. 
  8. "Oxycephaly (Concept Id: C4551646)" (in en). https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/medgen/1634950. 
  9. "Mosaic trisomy 12 (Concept Id: CN073989)" (in en). https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/medgen/449311. 

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