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Metopic synostosis

Known as: Metopic Synostoses, Synostoses, Metopic, Synostosis, Metopic 
Premature fusion of the metopic suture. [DDD:awilkie]
National Institutes of Health

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Craniosynostosis
Interfrontal craniofaciosynostosisTrigonocephaly

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2017
2017
The Severity of Deformity in Metopic Craniosynostosis Is Correlated with the Degree of Neurologic Dysfunction
Background: In recent years, metopic synostosis has represented up to 25 percent of all nonsyndromic craniosynostosis cases… 
Review
2014
Review
2014
An intragenic deletion of the NFIA gene in a patient with a hypoplastic corpus callosum, craniofacial abnormalities and urinary tract defects.
Review
2012
Review
2012
Simulated Fronto-Orbital Advancement Achieves Reproducible Results in Metopic Synostosis
Background Metopic synostosis results in trigonocephaly with bitemporal narrowing. Treatment involves differential fronto-orbital… 
Review
2012
Review
2012
Bregmatic Wormian Bone and Metopic Synostosis
AbstractWe present a case of a 14-week-old girl with metopic synostosis and an incidental finding of a large, pentagonal… 
2009
2009
Frontobasal Suture Distraction Corrects Hypotelorism in Metopic Synostosis
Background: Spring-assisted cranioplasty has been demonstrated to correct hypotelorism associated with metopic synostosis. In… 
2007
2007
Interstitial del(20)(q11.2q12)—Clinical and molecular cytogenetic characterization
A 2‐year‐old male patient with dysmorphic facial features and multiple congenital anomalies suggestive of a chromosome syndrome… 
Highly Cited
1998
Highly Cited
1998
The differential diagnosis of abnormal head shapes: separating craniosynostosis from positional deformities and normal variants.
The correct differential diagnosis of an abnormal head shape in an infant or a child is vital to the management of this common… 
1990
1990
Calvarial sutural abnormalities: metopic synostosis and coronal deformation--an anatomic, three-dimensional radiographic, and pathologic study.
The purposes of this study were (1) to evaluate the histologic differences between synostotic versus deformational suture… 
Highly Cited
1986
Highly Cited
1986
Surgical approaches for the correction of metopic synostosis.
Premature closure of the metopic suture results in a deformity ranging from a minor variation to a severe cosmetic deformity. The… 
1981
1981
Treatment of coronal and metopic synostosis: 107 cases.
This paper presents a personal series of 107 children with synostosis, 53 unicoronal, 27 bicoronal, and 28 metopic cases (1 child… 
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