title: Posterior calvarial augmentation in premature craniosynostosis: a technique avoiding foreign implants or free bone flaps.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  A surgical technique of posterior calvarial augmentation without the use of plates or screws and avoiding the formation of free bone flaps is described.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Three infants with strong occipital flattening successfully underwent the procedure in their first year of life. There were no intra- or postoperative complications; the amelioration of the head shape and the cosmetic results in all three cases were convincing also in the long term.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The proposed surgical technique is both feasible and effective; it is recommended for infants with marked flat deformation of the posterior calvaria in the first year of life.
authors.affiliation: Section of Pediatric Neurosurgery, Department of Neurosurgery, Universitätsmedizin, Mainz, Germany. wagner@nc.klinik.uni-mainz.de
authors.forename: Wolfgang
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Wagner
authors.forename: Eike
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Schwandt
authors.forename: Alexandra
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Huthmann
authors.forename: Sonja
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Vulcu
authors.forename: Christoph
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Tschan
mesh_terms: D016025:Bone Transplantation; D003388:Cranial Fossa, Posterior / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D003398:Craniosynostoses / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*; D003399:Craniotomy / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted; D021621:Imaging, Three-Dimensional; D007223:Infant; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D009777:Occipital Bone / Q000002:abnormalities / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D059041:Plagiocephaly / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*; D019736:Prostheses and Implants; D013536:Suture Techniques; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed