Osteocraniostenosis–hypomineralized skull with gracile long bones and splenic hypoplasia. Four new cases with distinctive chondro‐osseous morphology
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Abstract
Osteocraniostenosis is a severe skeletal dysplasia characterized by a hypomineralized skull that has been previously described as kleeblattschädel (cloverleaf skull) and overtubulated long bones. Dysmorphic facial features include a short nose, short philtrum, and a small, inverted V-shaped mouth. Splenic a/hypoplasia is a constant finding. We report four infants (two unrelated and two siblings) with osteocraniostenosis and describe the clinical, radiographic and chondro-osseous morphology findings. The two siblings lack the moderate long-bone shortening that is typically seen. The skull configuration is likely caused by severely hypoplastic cranial bones (parietal) rather than true craniosynostosis, making the term "osteocraniostenosis" misleading. Histological examination of bone in all cases showed an abnormal growth plate with short irregular columns. The resting cartilage showed pleomorphic chondrocytes with increased cellularity and unique pseudocolumn formation. There are some radiographic and chondro-osseous morphologic similarities between osteocraniostenosis and severe Hallermann-Streiff syndrome (HSS), suggesting the two disorders may be pathogenetically related.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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