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Title: | Facial Dysmorphology in Saethre-Chotzen Syndrome |
Authors: | JUNN, Alexandra; DINIS, Jacob; LU, Xiaona; FORTE, Antonio Jorge; MOZAFFARI, Mohammad Ali; PHILLIPS, Sarah; LOPEZ, Joseph; ALONSO, Nivaldo; PERSING, John A.; ALPEROVICH, Michael |
Citation: | JOURNAL OF CRANIOFACIAL SURGERY, v.32, n.8, p.2660-2665, 2021 |
Abstract: | Purpose: Classic features of Saethre-Chotzen syndrome (SCS) described in the literature include a prominent nasal bridge, eyelid ptosis, telorbitism, maxillary hypoplasia, and mandibular prognathism. The purpose of this study was to evaluate objectively the bony features of SCS. Methods: Preoperative computer tomography scans of 15 SCS patients, 23 normal controls, 13 bicoronal nonsyndromic, and 7 unicoronal nonsyndromic craniosynostosis patients were included for analysis. Unaffected controls and nonsyndromic patients were age- and sex-matched to SCS patients. Morphometric cephalometrics were analyzed using three-dimensional computer tomography reconstructions. Mann-Whitney U were used to compare facial measurements between SCS and normal and nonsyndromic craniosynostosis controls. Results: Telorbitism was present in bicoronal SCS patients only (P = 0.04) but absent in the unicoronal and bicoronal/metopic cohorts. The angle of the nasal bone relative to the sella was not different between SCS and controls (P = 0.536), although the angle of the nasal bone relative to the forehead was decreased in SCS by 15.5 degrees (P < 0.001). Saethre-Chotzen syndrome had a 2.6 degrees maxillary retrusion relative to controls (P = 0.03). In addition, SCS patients aged 4 to 7 months had a wider (39.34 versus 35.04, P = 0.017) and anteroposteriorly foreshortened (32.12 versus 35.06, P = 0.039) maxilla. There was no difference in mandibular prognathism among SCS patients as measured by the sella-nasion-B point angle compared to controls (P = 0.705). Conclusions: Despite classic descriptions, on morphometric analysis SCS patients did not demonstrate consistency across all suture subtypes in terms of telorbitism, a broad nasal bridge, or mandibular prognathism. Rather, SCS subtypes of SCS based on suture pathology more closely resemble nonsyndromic patients. |
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