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A female term infant is delivered by vaginal vertex delivery. On exam at 4 hours of age, she develops swelling over the left parietal bone. She grimaces when the area is palpated, but is otherwise healthy and feeding well. The most likely diagnosis for this infant is:

A preterm girl born at 25 weeks gestation with a birth weight at the 6th percentile, a head circumference at the 45th percentile, and a length at the 32nd percentile is considered:

Which grade of anterior vessel capsule is a 32 week infant most likely to have on exam?

Nystagmus in the newborn should be gone by:

The head shape of an infant with an asymmetric skull resulting from closure of the sutures on one side is called:

A small nodule on the upper helix is a:

The suture that separates the occipital bones from the parietal bones is called the:

Match the following physical characteristic with the appropriate maturity score using the New Ballard method.

An infant of a diabetic mother is tremulous at 48 hr of age. You recognize that these are physical assessment findings of:

What setting should the direct ophthalmoscope be set on in order to visualize the anterior vascular capsule of the lens of a premature infant?