title: [High condylectomy for control of pathological growth in condylar hyperplasia].
abstract: With the aim of eliminating pathological growth during the active period of condylar hyperplasia, 17 patients were treated with a high condylectomy with a retroauricular incision. Postoperatively none of the patients showed signs of continuing growth activity neither clinically nor roentgenologically. Thus, the high condylectomy can be recommended as a reliable technique to stop pathological and untimely growth with a low risk of complications, before occlusion and skeletal asymmetry are corrected by orthodontic surgery.
authors.affiliation: Klinik und Poliklinik für Mund-, Kiefer- und Gesichtschirurgie, Universität Bonn.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Appel
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Niederhagen
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Braumann
authors.forename: R H
authors.initials: RH
authors.lastname: Reich
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006965:Hyperplasia; D008297:Male; D008335:Mandibular Condyle / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D011862:Radiography, Panoramic; D013705:Temporomandibular Joint Disorders / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery; D016896:Treatment Outcome