| Title | Intracranial volume measurement of metopic craniosynostosis. | | Author(s) | Anderson PJ, Netherway DJ, Abbott A, David DJ | | Institution | Australian Craniofacial Unit, Women's and Children's Hospital (Associated with the University of Adelaide), North Adelaide, South Australia, Australia. haemro2@hotmail.com | | Source | J Craniofac Surg 2004 Nov; 15(6):1014-6; discussion 1017-8. | | MeSH | Case-Control Studies
Cephalometry
Craniosynostoses
Female
Humans
Infant
Male
Reference Values
Sex Factors
Skull
Tomography, X-Ray Computed
| | Abstract | The authors report 32 patients with nonsyndromic isolated metopic synostosis who have undergone evaluation of their intracranial volumes. Twenty-five were male and seven were female. The measured intracranial volumes were compared with normal age-corrected values established in the authors' unit, and any differences were noted.The authors found that, although there was a range of intracranial volumes, in the male patients, intracranial volumes were significantly smaller than those found in the normal population (P < 0.05). However, this result was not found in the smaller female sample.These results contrast with those of smaller earlier studies, but the authors conclude that intracranial volumes are smaller than average for age-corrected normal values; this finding highlights the need for volume expansion in conjunction with cranial reshaping. | | Language | eng | | Pub Type(s) | Journal Article
| | PubMed ID | 15547393 |
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