Correction of sagittal synostosis using foreshortening and lateral expansion of the cranium activated by gravity: Surgical technique and postoperative evolution

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 116, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 723-735

  Amm, Christian A ^a,b   Denny, Arlen D ^a,b,c  

^a Children's Hospital of Wisconsin ^*

^b Children's Hospital of Wisconsin   (United States)

^c CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CALVARIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIECTOMY; CRANIOFACIAL SYNOSTOSIS; CRANIOPLASTY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAVITY; HEMATOCRIT; HUMAN; INFANT; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; OPERATION DURATION; OSSIFICATION; OSTEOTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCAPHOCEPHALIA; SKULL DEVELOPMENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

CEPHALOMETRY; CRANIOSYNOSTOSES; FEMALE; GRAVITATION; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFANT; MALE; OSTEOTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; SKULL;

EID: 24644444573     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.prs.0000176897.76579.7c     Document Type: Article

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