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| Fetal forehead(frontal bone) |
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| Curvilinear surface w/ differentiation of the nose, lips and chin seen inferiorly |
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protrusion of the cranial contents through a defect in the orbital wall
arise from frontal bone or midface
may cause hypertelorism |
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| Encephaloceles/Encephalomenigocele |
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| Hernia of part of the brain and meninges through a skull defect |
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| 3 membranes that envelop the brain and spinal cord: ARACHNOID, PIA MATER, DURA MATER |
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| premature closure of any or all six of the cranial sutures |
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| b/t occipital and parietal |
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| b/t occipital and posterior edge of the mastoid portion of the temporal bone |
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| b/t frontal and 2 parietal bones |
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| b/t greater wing of sphenoid and the parietal bone |
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| b/t greater wing of sphenoid and squamois part of the temporal bone |
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| Clover leaf shaped skull; abnormal shape of fetal cranium due to craniosynostosis |
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| Premature closure of the metopic suture; flattented forehead in sag plane and triangular in axial plane |
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| premature closure of the coronal and lambdoid sutures; top of the head is pointed or conical shaped |
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| Lemon shaped skull secondary to spina bifida or skeletal dysplasia |
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| Germ cell tumor derived from the pluripotent cells made up of elements of different types of tissue from one or more of the germ cell layers |
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| enlarged tongue; may be caused by some glycogen storage disease; assoc. w/ beckwith widemann syndrome |
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| Beckwith Widemann Syndrome |
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| Congenital overgrowth of tissues; organomegaly |
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in axial plane width: rami-rami
in axial plane length: mentum of mandible to bisection |
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| small chin; polyhydramnios; assoc w/ 3 groups of anomalies: chromosomal, skeletal dysplasia, primary mandibular disorder: pierre robin syndrome and treacher collins syndrome |
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