Turricephaly
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 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 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 6
- Craniosynostosis, Boston-type
- Craniosynostosis and dental anomalies
- Fontaine progeroid syndrome
- Gomez Lopez Hernandez syndrome
- Intellectual developmental disorder, autosomal dominant 65
- Multiple [Epidermal Growth Factor-like Domains 8|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
Diagnosis