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AAP Grand Rounds 12:62-63 (2004)
© 2004 American Academy of Pediatrics

PLASTIC SURGERY

Differential Diagnosis of the Trapezoid-Shaped Head

Source: Ehret F, Whelan M, Ellenbogen R, et al. Differential diagnosis of the trapezoid-shaped head. Cleft Palate Craniofac J. 2004;41:13–19.[Medline]

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These authors performed a retrospective, 10-year review of patients with craniosynostosis and plagiocephaly seen at the craniofacial clinic at Children’s Hospital in Seattle, Wash, in order to describe the conditions that result in a trapezoid-shaped head. Their review included 690 patients who underwent surgical correction of craniosynostosis and 1,537 with posterior plagiocephaly. The shape of the head when viewed from the vertex position (looking down from the top of the head) in the axial plane was found . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Fernando Burstein, MD, FAAP, FACS
Pediatric Plastic Surgery and Craniofacial Surgery, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, Atlanta, GA

 





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