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Twenty-one patients had experienced raised ICP (in 19 patients diagnosis was based on invasive ICP monitoring and in two patients on clinical grounds alone) 1 to 6 weeks before undergoing angiography. Of the two remaining patients (both with Apert syndrome) whose ICP monitoring was normal immediately before angiography, each had undergone two previous cranial vault expansion procedures.<\/jats:p>\n<jats:p content-type=\"fine-print\">On results of 18 angiography studies a 51 to 99% stenosis or no flow at all could be observed in the sigmoid\u2014jugular sinus complex either bilaterally (11 patients) or unilaterally (seven patients). In 11 of these patients a florid collateral circulation through the stylomastoid emissary venous plexus was also seen. Two angiography studies were performed in one patient with Crouzon syndrome. A comparison of the two studies demonstrated a progression of the abnormal venous anatomy in that case. The authors found no obvious correlation between each patient's baseline ICP and the degree of abnormality of their venous anatomy, as judged on the basis of a venous-phase angiography severity score.<\/jats:p>\n<jats:p content-type=\"fine-print\"><jats:italic>Conclusions.<\/jats:italic> Based on their findings, the authors assert that in children with complex forms of craniosynostosis in whom other factors, such as hydrocephalus, are absent, abnormalities of venous drainage that particularly affect the sigmoid\u2014jugular sinus complex produce a state of venous hypertension that, in turn, is responsible for the majority of cases of raised ICP. The incidence of these changes is unknown, but an analysis of the ages of the children in this study indicated that the period of particular vulnerability to the effects of venous hypertension lasts until the affected child is approximately 6 years old. 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