Metopic suture patent to nasal root

What it means

The frontal suture divides the two halves of the frontal bone in infants and usually fuses by the age of six years. The suture runs from the bregma (the point on the skull at which the coronal suture is intersected perpendicularly by the sagittal suture) to the nasion or nasal root. This term applies if the suture is widely patent from bregma to nasal root.

This feature is a characteristic of Schinzel-Giedion midface retraction syndrome.

Rare diseases that can present with this2

The range is how often this sign appears among people diagnosed with each disease — it is not a probability of having any of them. Many of these signs also occur in common, non-rare conditions. A sign on this page is a conversation to have with a clinician, not a conclusion.

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