A case of unilateral coronal synostosis from Medieval Hungary (9th century A.D.)
Sándor Évinger|Tamás Hajdu|Gergely Bíró|Péter Zádori|Antónia Marcsik|Erika Molnár|Katalin Wolff
A unique single suture craniosynostosis case from the 9(th) century is presented in this paper. Although a fairly common pediatric anomaly nowadays, its occurrence archaeological collections an uncommon precedent. Since diagnosis and treatment of premature cranial closure usually happens at early age, evaluation whole developmental process rare opportunity. The right-sided coronal synostosis 30-35 years old woman gives interesting opportunity to observe effect phenomenon adulthood. Only slight distortion viscerocranium no bony signs elevated intracranial pressure can be seen on skull. women suffered remarkable bending face base midsagittal plane. Besides aesthetic disorder, condition might have contributed chronic headache visual disturbances. lack any other typical symptom suggests isolated or milder type syndromic craniosynostosis, possibility underlying causative mutation cannot ruled out.
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