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Start free with EleplanCraniofacial dysostosis-diaphyseal hyperplasia syndrome
ORPHA:1798Malformation syndrome
Also called Autosomal dominant osteosclerosis, Stanescu type · Dysostosis, Stanescu type · Stanescu osteosclerosis
What it is
A rare primary bone dysplasia with increased bone density characterized by craniofacial dysostosis with a small cranium and thin skull bone, depressions over the frontoparietal and occipitoparietal sutures, marked hypoplasia of mandible, exophthalmos, cortical sclerosis of the long bones and normal intelligence. The long bones are short and bent, and thickening of bone cortex occurs during the pubertal and post-pubertal periods and increases with age. There have been no further descriptions in the literature since 1995.
Key facts
- Prevalence
- <1 / 1 000 000 (Europe)
- Age of onset
- Neonatal
- Inheritance
- Autosomal dominant
- Classified as
- Malformation syndrome
Prevalence figures describe populations, not individuals, and are often estimates from a single study. Where the figure is an incidence or a birth prevalence, it says so.
Signs and symptoms
Very common80–99%
25- Abnormality of dental enamel
- Abnormality of the dentition
- Abnormal nasal morphology
- Abnormal palate morphology
- Abnormal skull morphology
- Bowing of the long bones
- Brachydactyly
- Cerebral calcification
- Flat face
- Hypertelorism
- Hypoplasia of the maxilla
- Hypoplasia of the zygomatic bone
- Increased bone mineral density
- Macroglossia
- Massively thickened long bone cortices
- Microcephaly
- Micromelia
- Midface retrusion
- Narrow nasal bridge
- Pectus excavatum
- Persistent open anterior fontanelle
- Proptosis
- Scoliosis
- Short stature
- Skeletal dysplasia
These ranges are how often a sign appears across everyone diagnosed, not a prediction for one person — most people have some of these and not others. Orphanet also records findings that are specifically absent in this disease; those are in the data but not listed here.
ICD-10 codes
ICD-10 has no distinct code for most rare diseases, so many are filed under the nearest available one. A shared code identifies the group, not this disease — the ORPHAcode above is what identifies it.
Related health topics
Reached through the ICD-10 categories this disease is filed under, so these describe the broader group rather than this disease specifically.
Cross-references
Orphadata Science: Free access data from Orphanet. © INSERM 1999. Data version 2026-06-23. Available under CC BY 4.0. This is a reference, not medical advice.
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