title: Intracranial hypertension in a patient with craniofacial synostosis and patent sutures.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Variety Center of Craniofacial Rehabilitation, Institute of Reconstructive Plastic Surgery, New York University Hospital, NY 10016, USA.
authors.forename: J K
authors.initials: JK
authors.lastname: Williams
authors.forename: M T
authors.initials: MT
authors.lastname: Longaker
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wisoff
authors.forename: J G
authors.initials: JG
authors.lastname: McCarthy
mesh_terms: 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