Turricephaly
| Turricephaly | |
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| Other names | Oxycephaly,[1] Acrocephaly, Hypsicephaly,[1] Oxycephalia,[1] Steeple head,[1] Tower head,[1] Tower skull, High-head syndrome, Turmschädel[2] | 
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| 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.[3][4] It is due to premature closure of the coronal suture plus any other suture, like the lambdoid,[5] or it may be used to describe the premature fusion of all sutures.[2] 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.[4]
Presentation
Common associations
It may be associated with:[6]
Conditions with turricephaly
Conditions with turricephaly include:[7][8]
- 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
 - Mosaic trisomy 12[9]
 - 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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Diagnosis
Treatment
See also
References
- ^ a b c d e Mosby's Medical Dictionary (8th ed.). Elsevier. 2009. Retrieved 24 August 2013.
 - ^ a b Bodian, Martin (May 6, 1950). "Oxycephaly". Journal of the American Medical Association. 143 (1): 15–8. doi:10.1001/jama.1950.02910360017006. PMID 15415226.
 - ^ "Turricephaly". Elements of Morphology. National Human Genome Research Institute. Retrieved 2022-10-29.
 - ^ a b Allanson, Judith E.; Cunniff, Christopher; Hoyme, H. Eugene; McGaughran, Julie; Muenke, Max; Neri, Giovanni (January 2009). "Elements of morphology: standard terminology for the head and face". American Journal of Medical Genetics. Part A. 149A (1): 6–28. doi:10.1002/ajmg.a.32612. ISSN 1552-4833. PMC 2778021. PMID 19125436.
 - ^ "oxycephaly". TheFreeDictionary. Retrieved 24 August 2013.
 - ^ Weerakkody, Yuranga; Goel, Ayush. "Oxycephaly". Radiopaedia.org. Retrieved 24 August 2013.
 - ^ "Turricephaly (Concept Id: C5399823)". www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. Retrieved 2023-09-14.
 - ^ "Oxycephaly (Concept Id: C4551646)". www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. Retrieved 2023-09-14.
 - ^ "Mosaic trisomy 12 (Concept Id: CN073989)". www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. Retrieved 2023-09-14.
 
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.
