Craniofacial Malformations as Fundamental Diagnostic Tools in Syndromic Entities.

ABSTRACT: Background: A long list of syndromic entities can be diagnosed immediately through scrutinizing the clinical phenotype of the craniofacial features. The latter should be assisted via proper radiological interpretations. Patients and Methods: Different children aged from 1 month to 12 years were referred to our departments seeking orthopedic advice. Primarily, all received variable false diagnoses in other institutes. Two unrelated boys of one month and 12 months were falsely diagnosed as having positional plagiocephaly associated with contractures of idiopathic origin. Two unrelated boys of 14 months and 2 years were diagnosed with pseudo-hydrocephalus and non-specific syndrome, and were referred to explore their skeletal development. Two unrelated girls of 4 years old and 12

SUBMITTER: Al Kaissi A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9600391 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature