Craniosynostosis is defined as the premature fusion of one or more cranial sutures resulting in skull deformity. Characteristically, this disorder can cause diverse neurosurgical problems, as well as abnormal skull shape. Intracranial hypertension, hydrocephalus, Chiari malformation and neuropsychological dysfunction are the major neurosurgical concerns in children with craniosynostosis. In thi...

The MR findings in a case of a Chiari type I malformation that resolved spontaneously over a 4-year period are presented. Differential growth of the skull and spine might have accounted for the resolution of this anomaly.

Canine Chiari-like malformation (CM) is a complex abnormality of the skull and craniocervical junction associated with miniaturization and brachycephaly which can result in the spinal cord disease syringomyelia (SM). This study investigated the inheritance of CM in a Griffon Bruxellois (GB) family and feasibility of crossbreeding a brachycephalic CM affected GB with a mesaticephalic normal Aust...

INTRODUCTION A boy presented with arthrogryposis multiplex congenita (AMC) associated with severe central nervous system dysfunction. The clinical history and the distinctive radiographic/tomographic features were consistent but not completely diagnostic for dysosteosclerosis. CASE PRESENTATION A 5-year-old boy from a consanguineous family in Austria was born with arthrogryposis multiplex con...

premature aging of Wiedmann rautenstrauch type is a rare syndrome,of which only nine cases has been reported up to 1994.this syndrome is characterized by cardiac, mental and physical problems such as skull and vertebral malformation which can be diagnosed from birth.in this article a 24 year old woman is reportef who was reffered to interal medicine clinic with the chief complaint of palpitatio...

the sturge-weber syndrome or encephalotrigeminal angiomatosis is a rare neurological and congenital disorder with a frequency of 1 in 50,000 births. this syndrome is a nonhereditary developmental condition and is characterized by the presence of congenital capillary malformation and a hamartomatous vascular proliferation involving the face (port-wine stain or facial birthmark), sometimes skull ...

Benign hemangiomas and vascular malformations are the most common tumor of infants and children [1]. Skull involvement is rare compared with soft-tissue involvement. A plethora of classifications applied to these lesions has led to an imperfect and suboptimal understanding of them. Burrows et al. [2] describe angiographic differences between hemangiomas and vascular malformations that corrobora...

Craniometaphyseal dysplasia is a rare genetic condition characterized by progressive thickening of bones in the skull and metaphyseal abnormalities in the long bones. This disorder often causes progressively symptomatic cranial nerve compression, but in rare cases foramen magnum stenosis may lead to quadriplegia. Chiari I malformation with craniometaphyseal dysplasia is extremely rare. The auth...

Plagiocephaly is a common asymmetry of the skull which looks as if it has been compressed along a horizontal axis between one temple and the opposite side of the occiput. It is often seen in normal people, and is only very rarely due to underlying disease or malformation of the skull; such cases are not discussed here. The observation of plagiocephaly in a few children seen because of congenita...

The present report is aimed at describing a rare case of cranial malformation - cloverleaf skull syndrome -, whose presence was noticed after the birth of a child with signs of abnormality. Imaging diagnosis methods such as computed tomography and conventional radiography were used to characterize the syndrome.