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Start free with EleplanCraniometadiaphyseal dysplasia, wormian bone type
ORPHA:85184Malformation syndrome
What it is
Craniometadiaphyseal dysplasia, wormian bone type is an extremely rare craniotubular bone dysplasia syndrome described in fewer than 10 patients to date. Clinical manifestations include macrocephaly, frontal bossing, malar hypoplasia, prominent mandible and dental hypoplasia. Other skeletal anomalies include abnormal bone modeling in tubular bones, multiple wormian bones and deformities of chest, pelvis and elbows. An increased risk of fractures is noted.
Key facts
- Prevalence
- <1 / 1 000 000
- Age of onset
- Neonatal
- Inheritance
- Autosomal recessive
- 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%
26- Abnormal diaphysis morphology
- Abnormal foot morphology
- Abnormality of skull ossification
- Abnormal temporal bone morphology
- Broad femoral neck
- Broad ribs
- Coxa valga
- Curly hair
- Downslanted palpebral fissures
- High palate
- Increased bone mineral density
- Macrocephaly
- Malar flattening
- Micrognathia
- Obtuse angle of mandible
- Osteopenia
- Overtubulated long bones
- Parietal bossing
- Prominent forehead
- Proptosis
- Short tubular bones of the hand
- Thin bony cortex
- Thin calvarium
- Vertebral arch anomaly
- Wide anterior fontanel
- Wormian bones
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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