Craniofacial Anomalies

Conditions and Treatments

The Center for Craniofacial Anomalies at UCSF Medical Center treats patients with a wide variety of conditions. The most commonly treated conditions include:

• Clefts of the Lip and/or Palate -- including cleft lip only, cleft lip and palate, cleft palate only, Pierre Robin sequence and velocardiofacial syndrome
• Craniosynostosis Syndromes -- including Apert, Pfeiffer and Crouzon syndromes
• Microtia and Hemifacial Microsomia -- including Goldenhar syndrome and other variants of ocolo-auricolo-vertibral (OAV) spectrum
• Ectodermal Dysplasia

Other conditions treated at the center include:

• Cleidocranial dysplasia
• Mandibulofacial Dysostosis (Treacher Collins syndrome)
• Moebius Syndrome
• Nager syndrome
• Miller syndrome
• Neurofibromatosis
• Orbital hypertelorism
• Fronto-nasal dysplasia
• Saethre-Chotzen syndrome
• Stickler syndrome
• Hemangiomas and vascular malformations
• Conditions caused by trauma or tumors to the face, head or neck

Reviewed by health care specialists at UCSF Children's Hospital.
Last updated May 8, 2007