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Pseudopseudotumor Cerebri

Fred k. Sondheimer, MD; Herman Grossman, MD; Patricia Winchester, MD

Arch Neurol. 1970;23(4):314-318.

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IN THE past, suture diastasis has been interpreted as a sign of acute raised intracranial pressure in children under the age of 10.¹ However, Capitanio and Kirkpatrick² have described three children suffering from deprivation dwarfism who developed spread of several cranial sutures following the correction of their malnutrition. The description of four additional patients, including the youngest in whom this phenomenon has been observed, and the one with the most rapid development of the roentgen changes, is the subject of this report.

Report of Cases

CASE 1.—A 3-year-old Mexican-American boy was admitted for failure to thrive. A product of a normal pregnancy, the infant was delivered by cesarean section. Birth weight was 3,260 gm (7 lb 3 oz). At 1 year, his weight was 8,165 gm (18 lb) and his developmental milestones were normal. During his second year of life, he developed pneumonia, for . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
San Francisco; New York

From the Department of Radiology, Mount Zion Hospital and Medical Center, and the University of California, San Francisco (Dr. Sondheimer), and the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, New York (Drs. Grossman and Winchester).

Footnotes
Accepted for publication May 25, 1970.

Reprint requests to Department of Radiology, Mount Zion Hospital and Medical Center, 1600 Divisadero Street, San Francisco 94115 (Dr. Sondheimer).

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