Your child’s surgeon may recommend a craniotomy (surgically creating an opening in the skull) to make openings in the cyst wall (a process called fenestration) and ensure normal flow of cerebrospinal ...

Craniosynostosis is when a baby’s skull bones fuse together before they are supposed to. In deformational plagiocephaly, there is no fusion of the skull bones. What causes deformational plagiocephaly?