Grave'S's disease, an unusual complication: raised intracranial pressure due to premature fusion of skull sutures.

Graves's disease is uncommon in childhood, only 5% of the total cases falling within the age- group 0-15 years (Saxena, Crawford, and Talbot, 1964). Excluding the transient neonatal form of thyrotoxicosis, we have been able to trace only 4 cases of hyperthyroidism beginning before 2 years. The purpose of this paper is to describe a boy with Graves's disease who presented in the second year of life, and subsequently developed raised intracranial pressure from premature fusion of his skull sutures.