Perioperative morbidity in posterior cranial vault expansion: Distraction osteogenesis versus conventional osteotomy

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 129, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Taylor, Jesse A ^a   Derderian, Christopher A ^a   Bartlett, Scott P ^a   Fiadjoe, John E ^a   Sussman, Emily M ^a   Stricker, Paul A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CRANIOFACIAL SYNOSTOSIS; DISTRACTION OSTEOGENESIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; OSTEOTOMY; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SKULL;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRANIOSYNOSTOSES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; MALE; OSTEOGENESIS, DISTRACTION; OSTEOTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SKULL;

EID: 84859329651     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e3182443164     Document Type: Review

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