Keywords: Turricephaly.jpg en Turricephaly commonly referred to as tower skull may be caused by a variety of medical syndromes such as Apert Pfeiffer and Crouzon syndromes It also one of the most common craniofacial bone abnormalities which occur as a result of Sickle cell diesease While some authors use turricephaly and oxycephaly interchangeably others reserve the latter for cases in which in addition to the elongated skull the top of the head is also cone shaped The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Human Paleopathology p 52 2008-12-28 http //elementsofmorphology nih gov/index cgi tid b1c6362251bad427 Courtesy National Human Genome Research Institute http //www genome gov/ other versions PD-USGov Uploaded with UploadWizard Craniofacial abnormalities Sickle-cell anemia |