Musculoskeletal Imaging

Mandibulofacial dysostosis

a type of craniosynostosis inherited as an autosomal dominant condition. This disease is also known as Treacher Collins syndrome. In mandibulofacial dysostosis, patients have an antimongoloid slant to the eyes, flat cheekbones, small mandible, dysplastic ears, and coloboma. On radiographs, marked hypoplasia of the zygomatic arches, maxilla and paranasal sinuses may be seen. Other features include egg-shaped orbits, hypoplastic and malformed mandible, and occasionally, vertebral anomalies and malformations in the extremities.

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