Congenital preferential posture syndrome

A congenital preferential posture syndrome or connatal predilection syndrome (congenital = congenital, predilection = preference) is a deformity of the head, face, jaw and feet with unilateral impressions (indentations) on the soft tissues and bones. The cause is often an intrauterine posture caused by the legs being turned up.

The spine can also be indirectly affected, e.g. B. With scoliosis The deformity can affect the development of the brain and facial skull .

The incidence is stated to be 15–20% in newborns; the changes are usually reversible through appropriate positioning.

The following are to be distinguished from the differential diagnosis:

• Hemihypertrophy of the face
• Curtius syndrome I (partial gigantism)
• Parry-Romberg syndrome (hemiatrophia faciei progressiva)
• Orofacial hemicrania
• Muscular torticollis

Individual evidence

1. ^ W. Pschyrembel: Clinical dictionary. Verlag Walter de Gruyter, 265th edition (2014), p. 1346, ISBN 3-11-018534-2

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