Exam 2 Flashcards
torticollis
inability to completely turn the head in both directions
Causes of Microcephaly
- Genetic defect
- Karyotype
- Intrauterine infections
- Antenatal radiation
- Exposure to drugs/chemicals
- Perinatal insult
Causes of Scaphocephaly (aka Dolichocephaly)
- positional problems int he premature infant (“Premie head”)
- Saggital craniosynostosis
Causes of Plagiocephaly
- Common with back head sleep position
- Torticollis
Scaphocephaly
- Growth is parallel to sagittal suture (anteroposterior elongation, bitemporal narrowing)
- Frontal bossing and prominent occiput
Bracycephaly
- Bilateral coronal or lambdoidal (11%)
- Broad skull with a short base and a recessed lower forehead
- Caused by premature closure of the coronal suture on both sides of the head (associated with Apert, Crouzon, Pfeiffer syndrome)
- “high-hat” appearance (compared to the long narrow appearance of sagittal craniosynostosis
Crouzon’s syndrome
- Craniosynostosis most often of the coronal and lambdoid, and occasionally sagittal sutures (brachycephalic)
- Underdeveloped midface with receded cheekbones (midface hypoplasia) or exophthalmos (bulging eyes)
- Esotropia and/or wide-set eyes
- Hypertelorism
- Need to open up these sutures early to allow their brain to grow
Apert Syndrome
- Very high brachycephalic head
- Severe syndactyly affecting all limbs (“mitten-hand appearance”); syndactyly involves bony fusion
- Hypertelorism, ptosis, downward-slanting palpebral fissures
- Cognitive defects
- Apert is the 2nd most common craniofacial syndrome after Crouzon.
Metopic Craniosynostosis
- “Trigonocephaly”
- Keel-shaped forehead with hypotelorism
- Upward slanting of the eyelids laterally
- Triangular shape to the forehead and supraorbital ridge
- They get ocular problems (astigmatism & strabismus). It’s not urgent though; it won’t affect their brain growth.
- You’d feel overriding sutures at the forehead tip
Oxycephaly
- Closure of all sutures except squamosal
- This is an EMERGENCY; she needs urgent surgery done to open up her suture line and allow her brain to grow
Positional plagiocephaly
- “Parallelogram” shape
- Face will be pushed forward on the affected side
- Frontal bossing due to pressure on the occiput
- The ear on the affected side will be forward i comparison to the unaffected side
- Commonly associated with torticollis, or positional problems (not changing the baby’s position often enough)
Lambdoidal craniosynostosis
- “Trapezoid” shape
- Affected side no open suture; if there is lambdoidal synostosis, the head cannot expand in the frontal region on the affected side of the head so the growth will be affected on the unaffected side
- Since there is growth restriction on the affected side, there is overgrowth everywhere else
- The face is asymmetrical; one side of the face is coming out more than the other
- Posterior displacement of the ipsilateral ear
Waardenburg syndrome
- White forelock
- Beaked nose
- Triangular face, pointed chin
- *They develop hearing loss later in life; it’s a genetic disease with variable penetrance, so the amount of hearing loss varies from person-to-person
Alopecia areata
- Autoimmune disease
- Black dot sign
- Circular pattern of hair loss
Midface hypoplasia
- associated with sleep apnea and stridor
- dental problems
- may have hearing problems
Micrognathia
- The mandible has not grown as much as it should resulting in a small mandible and chin.
- Advancement of the mandible and chin surgically
- The correction is done via the intraoral route without any incisions on the face
- preceded by orthodontic treatment to align the teeth prior to proper surgical treatment
Prognathic mandible
- Lower jaw is too prominent
- Occurs with congenital overgrowth of the lower jaw
- Certain pathologic causes such as gigantism due to pituitary overgrowth and other tumors or congenital deformities
Sturge Weber Syndrome
- Look for non-elevated purple venous malformation (port wine stain) in the distribution of trigeminal nerve (i.e. forehead and upper eyelid)
- Involves opthalmic division
- High incidence of mental retardation
- Ocular complications (glaucoma) on the affected side
- High incidence of seizures related to deformation of the brain
- Today they can laser away the redness; you’d never know there was anything wrong.
Myopia
“Nearsightedness”
- Occurs when the anterior-posterior diameter of the eye is too long relative to the refracting power of the cornea and lens
- Lengthening of the eye in such a way is common at the start of puberty; hence why a lot of people start wearing glasses in middle school
Hyperopia
“Farsightedness”
- Hyperopic eye is too short relative to the refracting power of the eye
- The focal point of the image occurs posterior to the retina and the image that forms on the retina is blurred
- Glasses may not be requried
Astigmatism
- Type of refractive error that causes blurred vision for objects at both distance and near
- Occurs because the optical system of the eye, particularly the cornea, is not perfectly spherical
Strabismus
Occurs when the eyes do not move in synchronous pattern
Esotropia
(type of strabismus)
- (Convergent squint) inward deviation
Exotropia
(type of strabismus)
- (Divergent squint) outward deviation