Intracranial hypertension in a patient with craniofacial synostosis and patent sutures.
Craniosynostosis is often associated with restrictive cranial vault deformities, diminished intracranial volume, and intracranial hypertension. Advances in imaging techniques have provided a method of intracranial volume analysis that has demonstrated a more complicated relationship between craniofacial abnormalities and elevated intracranial pressures. Studies have confirmed a decrease in intracranial volume in the presence of craniosynostosis, but this association is not found in every patient. We report an unusual case of elevated intracranial pressure in a patient with the clinical stigmata of Crouzon's syndrome but with patent cranial vault sutures.
Williams
J K
JK
Variety Center of Craniofacial Rehabilitation, Institute of Reconstructive Plastic Surgery, New York University Hospital, NY 10016, USA.
Longaker
M T
MT
Wisoff
J
J
McCarthy
J G
JG
D003393:Cranial Sutures / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D003394:Craniofacial Dysostosis / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D019586:Intracranial Hypertension / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D012891:Sleep Apnea Syndromes / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed