re: 1-mth-old son referred to neurosurgeon for craniosynostosis (helmet pic p. 14)

Friend of mine's daughter had that surgery. Recovered fast, looks great. Cute normal little girl now. Find the best surgeon you can find. Theirs was a young guy in Missouri. Don't know the name but he was highly recommended.

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We were referred to Dr. Allen Joseph in BR. The nurses at the pediatrician's office tried to call today, and of course the answering service folks are trying to say "earliest appointment is 2 months from now." Pediatrician said frick that (in different words). So now they are trying to get in touch with a nurse over there and get an earlier appointment.

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Getting other opinions is always good, that being said, Allen Joseph is one of the best pediatric neurosurgeons on the planet.

"Dr. Joseph completed his internship and general surgery training at Ben Taub Hospital in Houston, Texas. His neurological surgery training took place at Baylor affiliated hospitals in the Texas Medical Center. He moved to Toronto,Canada to train in pediatric neurosurgery at the Hospital for Sick Children. He later served as Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery at Walter Reed Army MedicalCenter in Washington, D.C."

Hey bud, hope all goes well with the scan. From the looks of the drawing you showed, it may be nothing more than "positional plagiocephaly." Hopefully that's all, and no surgery is needed.

But for your sake, I'd like to clear up some of the other nonsense I've read in this read. The scan will be very definitive. If it shows that the cranial sutures have prematurely fused, then surgery will be necessary. It's has nothing to do with greed or even cosmesis. The operation is necessary to reduce the intracranial pressure and allow normal neural development.

I know a girl who had this I didn't notice the spot her hair doesn't grow (from the scar) until she said something, and it runs perpendicular to her hair part. She's still a pretty girl.

So I was wrong about the date of the CT scan. It was today, not tomorrow.

As I suspected, there was no one "authorized" to give us any medical opinion/interpretation of the scan results. They were sent to radiology, who sends them to the neurosurgeon, who will supposedly call us back this week.

However... the hospital did provide us with a CD of the images, meant to to be given to other hospitals if needed.

Of course, I had to look at the images. Popped in the CD, navigated through the PacsCube portable software or whatever it's called, and pulled up 200+ images. I wasn't expecting to be able to interpret them, and most of them were just blurry brain scans. But as I scrolled through them, I came upon a couple of rotatable composite 3d images. Here's a shot from one:



Obviously, I'm not a doctor, but I Google the shite out of things, and I don't see how those scans can be interpreted any other way than a clear textbook image of Lambdoid Synostosis.

Wife says no surgery. Doesn't typically hinder brain growth, either. No additional pressure too.

My wife is a neuro radiologist. Showed the image to her and asked "what do you see?" She takes a look and says "a fused lambdoid suture."

Like the doctor above wrote, your child will be okay. That is the most important thing and just keep reminding yourself you will enjoy seeing your son grow up to be a healthy, normal kid.

Edited. Disregard my previous questions if you saw them. I think I took your comment out of context.