%0 Journal Article %T The copper-beaten skull %A N Mahomed %A T Sewchuran %A Z Mahomed %J South African Journal of Radiology %D 2012 %I %X Variations and abnormalities of skull appearance and shape are generally related to a primary maldevelopment of the brain. The copper-beaten skull appearance is typically associated with craniosynostosis, where premature fusion of the cranial bone sutures results in the growing brain exerting pressure on the malleable cranium, producing a pattern known as the copper-beaten skull appearance. SA JOURNAL OF RADIOLOGY February 2012 %U http://www.ajol.info/index.php/sajr/article/view/74632