title: Fronto-orbital re-operation in craniosynostosis.
abstract: The need for fronto-orbital re-advancement is reported from all cases of craniosynostosis operated on in the Birmingham and Oxford Craniofacial Units since 1979. Analysis of the 219 cases demonstrates a significantly higher re-operation rate in cases of syndromal craniofacial dysostosis or unilateral coronal synostosis initially operated on below the age of 6 months. Mild bicoronal, sagittal and metopic synostotic cases, however, did uniformly well with the timing of initial surgery having little influence on the re-operation rates.
authors.affiliation: Division of Plastic Surgery, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.
authors.forename: S A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Wall
authors.forename: J H
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Goldin
authors.forename: A D
authors.initials: AD
authors.lastname: Hockley
authors.forename: M J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Wake
authors.forename: M D
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Poole
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Briggs
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D003398:Craniosynostoses / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D005624:Frontal Bone / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D009915:Orbit / Q000601:surgery; D012086:Reoperation; D012886:Skull / Q000601:surgery*