Turricephaly

Template:Short description Template:Infobox medical condition (new) Turricephaly is a type of cephalic disorder where the head appears tall with a small length and width.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name=":0">Template:Cite journal</ref> It is due to premature closure of the coronal suture plus any other suture, like the lambdoid,<ref name=TheFreeDictionary>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> or it may be used to describe the premature fusion of all sutures.<ref name="pmid15415226" /> 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.<ref name=":0" />

Presentation

Common associations

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• 8th cranial nerve lesion
• Optic nerve compression
• Intellectual disability
• Syndactyly

Conditions with turricephaly

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• Achondrogenesis, type IA
• Acrocephalopolydactyly
• Acrocephalosyndactyly type V (Goodman syndrome)
• Acrocraniofacial dysostosis
• Alopecia - contractures - dwarfism - intellectual disability syndrome
• CEBALID syndrome
• Chromosome 1q21.1 deletion syndrome
• Chromosome 4q32.1-q32.2 triplication syndrome
• Chromosome 5p13 duplication syndrome
• Cole-Carpenter syndrome 2
• Craniorhiny
• Craniosynostosis (nonsyndromic) 6
• Craniosynostosis, Boston-type (nonsyndromic)
• Craniosynostosis and dental anomalies
• Fontaine progeroid syndrome
• Gomez Lopez Hernandez syndrome
• Intellectual developmental disorder, autosomal dominant 65
• MEGF8-related Carpenter syndrome
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• Myopathy, epilepsy, and progressive cerebral atrophy
• Peroxisome biogenesis disorder 2A (Zellweger)
• Potocki-Shaffer syndrome
• Saethre-Chotzen syndrome
• Spondyloenchondrodysplasia with immune dysregulation
• Spondylometaphyseal dysplasia, Sedaghatian type
• Summitt syndrome
• Teebi-Shaltout syndrome
• Tolchin-Le Caignec syndrome
• TWIST1-related craniosynostosis
• Usmani-Riazuddin syndrome, autosomal dominant

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  Carpenter syndrome

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  Congenital syphilis

• Oxyhydrocephalus.jpg

  Hydrocephalus

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  Microcephaly

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  Pfeiffer syndrome

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  Saethre-Chotzen syndrome

See also

• Acrocephalosyndactylia

Further reading

• NINDS Overview
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