Crouzon

Crouzon Syndrome - Symptoms
... normal development, the ears "travel" upward on the head however, in Crouzon patients, this pattern of development is disrupted ... The most notable characteristic of Crouzon syndrome is cranial synostosis, as described above, but it usually presents as brachycephaly, which results in the appearance of a short and broad head ... Crouzon syndrome is also associated with PDA( patent ductus arteriosus) and aortic coarctation ...

Hearing Loss With Craniofacial Syndromes - Crouzon Syndrome
... Patients with Crouzon syndrome sometimes exhibit malformations of the external ear and/or the middle ear, such as malalignment of the pinna (Peterson-Falzone et al ... Literature has suggested that persons with Crouzon syndrome typically have conductive hearing loss caused by middle ear effusion (or fluid in the middle ear) and perforation to ossicular fixation (ossi ...

Octave Crouzon
... Octave Crouzon, full name Louis Edouard Octave Crouzon (1874–1938) was a French neurologist born in Paris ... Crouzon specialized in hereditary neurological diseases, especially spinocerebellar ataxia ... Crouzon was the first to describe a condition he called "craniofacial dysostosis", which is a genetic branchial arch disorder that results in abnormal facial ...