Cranial deformities

Cranial deformities have always attracted scientists’ attention. Hippocrates has mentioned the tower-like shape of the head in his manuscripts; he regarded to it as a constitutive abnormality and presumed that there was an association between this abnormality and the cranial sutures 1).

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Komotar R.J., Zacharia B.E., Ellis J.A., Feldstein N.A., Anderson R.C. Pitfalls for the pediatrician: positional molding or craniosynostosis? Pediatr Ann 2006; 35: 5: 365—375.