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Craniosynostosis
Alternative names:
premature closure of sutures
Symptoms:
- absence of the normal feeling of a "soft spot" on the newborn's skull
- a raised hard ridge along the affected suture
- unusual head shape
- slow or no increase in the head size (small occipital-frontal circumference)
Signs and tests:
Skull X-ray films diagnose the condition
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