Lawson Thompson was just weeks old when mum Natasha Strickland noticed his head seemed to be an odd shape. Strickland and her ...

[3] Figure 1 illustrates the boney anatomy of the normal skull sutures and fontanelles. The newborn infant's skull is incompletely ossified and the cranial sutures are normally open at birth ...

One of the most common but often overlooked problems resulting from skull trauma is the cranial suture injury. Cranial suture injuries occur when the skull is thrown against an immovable object ...

Look for a second line at the front of the skull -- the coronal suture – which fully fuses ... better-suited to carrying a baby. For a quick identification in the field, a forensic ...

Moazen noted that a major contribution of this study is that it advances our knowledge about the impact of external forces on the structure of cranial sutures and the potential healing properties of ...