Narrow face

Narrow face
Other names	Narrow facies
Narrow face and acroephalus in congenital syphilis

Narrow face is a dysmorphic feature in which its width is abnormally reduced (upper and lower face width less than 2 SD below the mean subjectively, or apparent reduction of the width of the upper and lower face objectively).[1][2][3]

Syndromes (conditions)

Narrow face is seen in the following conditions and syndromes:[1]

• 5p partial monosomy syndrome
• Bloom syndrome
• Branchiootorenal syndrome 1
• Cardiofaciocutaneous syndrome 4
• Christianson syndrome
• Congenital disorder of glycosylation, type IIw
• Congenital myasthenic syndrome 2A
• Congenital myopathy 4A, autosomal dominant
• Congenital myopathy 4B, autosomal recessive
• Creatine transporter deficiency
• Cutis laxa, X-linked
• Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, Beasley-Cohen type
• Granulocytopenia with immunoglobulin abnormality
• Hereditary spastic paraplegia 23 and 51
• Intellectual disability, autosomal recessive 5
• Intellectual disability, X-linked 107, 58, and 61
• Knobloch syndrome
• Marfan syndrome
• Mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome 13
• Nance-Horan syndrome
• Oculofaciocardiodental syndrome
• Otofaciocervical syndrome 1
• Proximal myopathy with extrapyramidal signs
• Radioulnar synostosis-developmental delay-hypotonia syndrome
• Renpenning syndrome
• Seckel syndrome 9
• Severe X-linked myotubular myopathy
• SIN3A-related intellectual disability syndrome due to a point mutation
• Symphalangism-brachydactyly syndrome
• Syndromic X-linked intellectual disability 14
• Torsion dystonia 4
• X-linked intellectual disability with marfanoid habitus
• XFE progeroid syndrome

See also

• Facial bones
• Scaphocephaly

References

1. "Narrow face (Concept Id: C1837463)". www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. Retrieved 2023-08-09.
2. "Face, Narrow". elementsofmorphology.nih.gov. Retrieved 2023-08-09.
3. Colyer, Frank (1910). Dental Surgery and Pathology. Longmans, Green.