title: [Modified technique for correction of the orbital hypertelorism].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To explore the possibility of para-orbital soft-tissue expansion, before orbital osteotomy and medial translocation procedures with a combined intracranial-extracranial approach.
  
  
  METHODS
  Tissue expansion in the region of the zygomatic and temporal has been undergone for 3 weeks before the traditional intracranial-extracranial approach for orbital osteotomy and medial translocation in two patients. The healing between the orbital bone was studied with measurement of interorbital distance and three-dimensional CT.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The inter-orbital distance of the two patients decreased from 4.4 cm and 3.2 cm to 2.0 cm and 1.4 cm. The intercanthal distance decreased from 6.7 cm and 4.8 cm to 5.0 cm and 3.8 cm.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The para-orbital soft-tissue expansion technique may be an effective technique for the stability of the corrected interorbital distance in orbital hypertelorism.
authors.affiliation: Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Zhujiang Hospital, Southen Medical University, Guangzhou 510282, China.
authors.forename: Da-Lei
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Qiang
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Yuan
authors.forename: Jin-Huang
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Zhi
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.forename: Lei
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Shan
authors.forename: Ming-Li
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Ji-Long
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Yuan
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006972:Hypertelorism / Q000601:surgery*; D008297:Male; D009915:Orbit / Q000002:abnormalities / Q000601:surgery; D015626:Tissue Expansion / Q000379:methods*