42+ Fontanelle Closure Too Early Pics
42+ Fontanelle Closure Too Early Pics. A fontanelle (or fontanel) (colloquially, soft spot) is an anatomical feature of the infant human skull comprising any of the soft membranous gaps (sutures) between the cranial bones that make up the calvaria of a fetus or an infant. A fontanelle can close earlier or later and still be normal.
A condition in which the sutures close too early, called craniosynostosis, has been associated with early fontanelle closure.
The precise timing of the anterior fontanelle closure is quite variable, and the research literature shows cases of closure from 6 months that may represent a normal variation in healthy babies 2 although early or late closure of a fontanelle is associated with various pathologies 3. Premature a severe form of neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis with onset at birth and characteristics of primary microcephaly, neonatal epilepsy and death in early infancy. Small fontanelle or early closure. Early fontanel closure was not associated with microcephaly.
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