The 3D CT Scan
Well, I've seen the CT scan. The doctor has received the radiologist's report by now but he has not seen the scans (he picks them up tomorrow when he comes to Fredericksburg). Peter has absolutely no sagittal suture. His skull looks like a shiny, smooth, round cue ball. He has the coronal suture and the lambdoid (the one on the lower back of the skull) but that's it. I can find little evidence of the temporal sutures as well. On one side, you can kind of see where it was but the other side looks as if the suture was never there. Peter also, very, very clearly, has trigonenephaly. You can't quite tell looking at him but his forehead is small and triangular shaped and his skull is strangely out of proportion with his face. Looking at him with his skin covering the skull, you can't tell this but the scans tell a completely different story. The question for us now is whether the neurosurgeon will want an ICP test done and, if so, when. We expect that we will be meeting ...