A simple technique for the correction of frontal bossing in synostotic scaphocephaly

Child's Nervous System

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 373-377

  Wagner, Wolfgang ^a   Wiewrodt, Dorothee ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Craniosynostosis; Frontal bossing; Scaphocephaly; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ANTERIOR FONTANEL; ARTICLE; BONE DEFORMATION; BONE GRAFT; BONE SCREW; CALVARIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CRANIOFACIAL SYNOSTOSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; ESTHETIC SURGERY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; FRONTAL BONE; FRONTAL BOSSING; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; OPERATION DURATION; PLATE FIXATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCAPHOCEPHALIA; SKULL BASE; SKULL SURGERY; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

CRANIAL SUTURES; CRANIOSYNOSTOSES; CRANIOTOMY; FRONTAL BONE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; OSTEOTOMY; SURGICAL FLAPS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 39149120253     PISSN: 02567040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00381-007-0548-6     Document Type: Article

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