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From the pathologist’s viewpoint, craniosynostosis can be regarded as a normal developmental process occurring at an abnormally early age. It is true that the affected sutures may at times show hyperplastic changes not seen in sutures closing normally during adult life. There is however little or nothing in the sutural pathology of craniosynostosis to suggest that the process differs fundamentally from normal sutural closure, except in its timing. Indeed, the histopathology of the prematurely closed sutures has been disappointing as a source of information on the primary cause or causes of craniosynostosis, except in a negative way.
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David, D.J., Poswillo, D.E., Simpson, D.A. (1982). Pathology. In: The Craniosynostoses. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-1323-2_4
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