[1] Craniosynostosis may involve one or all of the sutures. Head and brain growth are restricted and head shape is abnormal when all of the sutures are fused. If some but not all of the sutures ...

Premature fusing of the skull bones is a condition called craniosynostosis. Both the brain’s growth and the shape of the baby ...

But those helmets are there for a very serious reason — the 6-month-old triplets were born with craniosynostosis ... that causes a baby to be born with an abnormally shaped head.

The infant with an abnormal head shape requires careful evaluation; treatment varies according to the etiology. Craniosynostosis, a less common but pathological etiology for plagiocephaly ...