A Case of Late Onset Atypical Craniosynostosis.

Kim,  Kyo Ryung; Seok,  Lee Jun; Lee,  Joon Soo

Case Report

Journal of the Korean Child Neurology Society 2009;17(2):242-246.
Published online November 30, 2009.

A Case of Late Onset Atypical Craniosynostosis.

Kyo Ryung Kim, Lee Jun Seok, Joon Soo Lee

Department of Pediatrics, Pediatric Epilepsy Clinics, Severance Childrens Hospital Brain Research Institute, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea. joons196@yumc.yonsei.ac.kr

Abstract

Craniosynostosis is a congenital deformity causing disorder in the growth of the skull and brain parenchyma, resulting from the fusion of the cranial sutures of calvaria or basilar before birth or within a few months after birth. In most cases it is diagnosed just after birth. However, some cases of vague diagnoses were reported, which was due to the late onset age, and the absence of typical symptoms and typical radiological findings. We make a report of a case in which the three-dimensional CT was helpful in making a diagnosis of a patient with minimal forms of craniosynostosis having minimal cranial deformities revealing just late onset raised intracranial pressure, along with the investigation of medical literature.

Key Words: Late-onset craniosynostosis, Pseudotumor cerebri