Eur J Pediatr Surg 1981; 34(10): 184-187
DOI: 10.1055/s-2008-1063333
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Early Surgical Management of Coronal Metopic Craniosynostosis

C.  Di Rocco1 , F.  Velardi1 , Maria Pia Sette2
  • 1From the Institutes of Neurosurgery, Catholic University Medical School, Rome, Italy
  • 2From the Institutes of Anesthesiology, Catholic University Medical School, Rome, Italy
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Publication Date:
25 March 2008 (online)

Abstract

Eighteen children with anterior craniosynostosis were treated prior to 8 months of age (average 4.5 months) with two main techniques. Strip craniectomies of both coronal sutures extending downwards along the lateral walls of the orbits beyond the sphenozygomatic sutures were performed in 6 children with bilateral coronal synostosis alone. Advancement of the supraorbital ridge with unroofing of the orbit and asportation of its lateral wall was carried out in the remaining 12 children (3 cases with Apert's syndrome; 1 case with Cronzon's syndrome; 2 cases of plagiocephaly; 6 cases of trigonocephaly).

Excellent results were obtained with all the patients immediately following surgery. The operation, however, even if performed early, did not affect the associated facial skeletal abnormalities in the 2 children with plagioccphaly; a late "recurrence" of some of the facial features of Apert's syndrome was recorded in one of the subjects with this pathology.

Zusammenfassung

18 Kinder mit vorderer Kraniosynostose wurden im Alter bis zu 8 Monaten operiert. Bei 6 Kindern mit bilateraler Koronarsynostose erfolgte eine lineare Kranicktomie der ganzen Koronarnaht bis zur seitlichen Wand der Orbita entlang der Sutura sphenozygomatica. Vorwärtsverlagerung des Supraorbitalrandcs mit Entdachung der Orbita und Vorwärtsverankerung des seitlichen Orbitalrandes wurden bei den restlichen 12 Kindern (3 Apert, 1 Cronzon, 2 Plagiozcphalus, 6 Trigonozephalus) vorgenommen.

Ausgezeichnete Ergebnisse zeichneten sich bei allen unmittelbar nach der Operation ab. Jedoch ließen sich Abnormalitäten des Gesichtsschädels bei 2 Kindern mit Plagiozephalus nicht mit dem geschilderten Vorgehen beheben.

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