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Also known as turricephaly, acrocephaly, hypsicephaly, oxycephalia, steeple head, tower head, tower skull, high-head syndrome

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.

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Medical condition (new).synonyms
Oxycephaly, Acrocephaly, Hypsicephaly, Oxycephalia, Steeple head, Tower head, Tower skull, High-head syndrome, Turmschädel
Medical condition (new).name
Turricephaly
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File:Turricephaly.jpg
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dysmorphology
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reduced head length and width for age

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Oxycephaly
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  • Presentation
  • Common associations
  • Conditions with turricephaly
  • Diagnosis
  • Treatment
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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=== Conditions with turricephaly include: 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 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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