Turricephaly

Turricephaly
Other names	Oxycephaly, Acrocephaly, Hypsicephaly, Oxycephalia, Steeple head, Tower head, Tower skull, High-head syndrome, Turmschädel
Specialty	Dysmorphology
Symptoms	reduced head length and width for age

Turricephaly is a type of cephalic disorder where the head appears tall with a small length and width. It is due to premature closure of the coronal suture plus any other suture, like the lambdoid, or it may be used to describe the premature fusion of all sutures. 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.

Presentation

Common associations

It may be associated with:

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

Conditions with turricephaly

• Achondrogenesis type 1A
• Acrocephalopolydactyly
• Acrocephalosyndactyly type V (Goodman syndrome)
• Acrocraniofacial dysostosis
• MEGF8-related Carpenter syndrome
• Pfeiffer syndrome
• Potocki-Shaffer syndrome
• Saethre-Chotzen syndrome
• Spondyloenchondrodysplasia with immune disregulation
• Spondyloepimetaphyseal dysplasia, Sedaghatian type
• Summitt syndrome
• TWIST1-related craniosynostosis

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  Congenital syphilis

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  Hydrocephalus

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  Microcephaly

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  Pfeiffer syndrome

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  Saethre-Chotzen syndrome

Diagnosis

Treatment

See also

• Acrocephalosyndactylia

Further reading

• NINDS Overview
• Ebenezer, Roy (1960). "Craniostenosis or oxycephaly". Indian Journal of Ophthalmology. 8 (3): 77–80. ISSN 0301-4738. PMID 13819157.

External links

Look up oxycephaly in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.