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

Abstract

The results from this review of the authors' early experience with posterior vault distraction osteogenesis suggest that distraction osteogenesis and conventional osteotomy have similar perioperative safety and morbidity profiles.

These data may seem counterintuitive, and the perioperative course of children undergoing distraction osteogenesis is likely to improve as experience with distraction osteogenesis increases. CLINICAL QUESTION/LEVEL OF

EVIDENCE:
Therapeutic, II.

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Subjects

• Child, Preschool
• Craniosynostoses
• Female
• Humans
• Infant
• Intraoperative Complications
• Male
• Osteogenesis, Distraction
• Osteotomy
• Postoperative Complications
• Skull

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Authors

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

Publication date

2012-03-29

Journal

Journal topics

• Surgery, Plastic

Language

Eng.

Copyright

Plastic and reconstructive surgery

Department of Surgery, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia The University of Pennsylvania Colket Translational Research Building, 9th Floor Philadelphia, PA. 19104, USA. taylorj5 [at] chop.edu

Release reference

Plast Reconstr Surg. 2012 Apr;129(4):674e-80e

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