South African Journal of Radiology (Feb 2012)

The copper-beaten skull

  • Nasreen Mahomed,
  • Tanusha Sewchuran,
  • Zareena Mahomed

DOI
https://doi.org/10.4102/sajr.v16i1.229
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 16, no. 1
pp. 25 – 26

Abstract

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Variations and abnormalities of skull appearance and shape are generally related to a primary maldevelopment of the brain. The copper-beaten skull appearance is typically associated with craniosynostosis, where premature fusion of the cranial bone sutures results in the growing brain exerting pressure on the malleable cranium, producing a pattern known as the copper-beaten skull appearance.

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