Head/face conditions Flashcards
Build up of cerebrospinal fluid
Large head
Bulging Fontanelle
Hydrocephalus
Abnormal head circumference
Wider spacing between eyes
Narrow middle face
Broad lip
Downs syndrom
Increased head size, frontal bone
May loose teeth
Large maxilla and mandible
Paget’s disease
Gigantism
Head elongates
Mandibular prognathism
Swollen nose lips brow tongue
Acromegaly
Birth defect
Joints of skull closes premature
Abnormal head shape and asymmetry
Craniosynostosis
Puffiness and swollen face
May have entire body swelling
Edematous
Maybe caused by hypothyroidism, preeclampsia or kidney disease
Chipmunk cheeks
Parotid gland enlargement
Caused by mumps, tumor, bulimia, infection
Moon face, red cheeks, acne, thinning hair, buffalo hump, trunk obesity with striae, normal extremity size
Cushing’s disease
Excess cortisol
Masked expression, less animated, less facial movements, shuffling gait
Parkinson’s
Set back/sunken eyes
Enoophthalmos
Hypothyroidism
Bulging eyes
Exophthalmos
Hyperthyroidism
Enophthalmos and thinning of lateral 2/3 of eyebrows
Hypothyroidism
Eyelids fold inward
Entropion
Eyelids fold outward
Ectropion
Drooping of one or both eyelids
Ptosis
Pupil asymmetry
Anisocoria
eyes do not align
Strabismus