Table 2.

Different types of craniosynostosis and associated abnormalities

Abnormal shape	Suture synostosis	Associated abnormalities
Scaphocephaly/Dolichocephaly (long)	Sagittal	-
Brachycephaly (short, broad)	Bilateral coronal	Down syndrome
		Pfeiffer syndrome
Plagiocephaly (ipsilateral forehead or occipital flattening)	Unilateral coronal or lambdoid	-
Trigonocephaly (forward pointing)	Metopic	Jacobsen syndrome or Opitz C syndrome
Cloverleaf (trilobate)	Sagittal, coronal, and lambdoid	Thanatophoric dysplasia, Apert syndrome, Crouzon syndrome
		Carpenter syndrome
Oxycephaly (pointed or conical)	Sagittal and lambdoid	-