craniotabes
Last reviewed 01/2018
Craniotabes is a feature of thin skull bones such that when the occipital or posterior parietal bones are pressed upon they depress in the same manner as a ping-pong or table tennis ball.
Causes include:
- normal finding near the sutures in a newborn infant
- rickets
- hydrocephalus
- syphilis
- osteogenesis imperfecta
- hypervitaminosis A