title: Sinusoidal coronal incision.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The coronal incision is a standard surgical approach in craniofacial surgery. For pediatric patients, it holds a certain risk for unbeneficial aesthetic outcome due to a broadening of the scar in the fast-growing infant skull.
  
  
  METHODS
  We readopted the coronal approach over the last decade and developed a sinusoidal type of incision based on the “stealth incision” by Munro and Fearon. We present a calculative standardization of our approach.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The sinusoidal coronal approach assures superior aesthetical results with equivalent skeletal exposure. The surgical procedure is simplified and standardized. Even in the fast-growing infant skull, broadening of the scar or vertical divergence is avoided.
authors.affiliation: Departments of Cranio-Maxillofacial Surgery-Plastic Surgery, University Hospital Giessen, Giessen, Germany. jan-falco.wilbrand@chiru.med.uni-giessen.de
authors.forename: Jan-Falco
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Wilbrand
authors.forename: Heidrun
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Schaaf
authors.forename: Hans-Peter
authors.initials: HP
authors.lastname: Howaldt
authors.forename: Petros
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Christophis
mesh_terms: D002921:Cicatrix; D003392:Cranial Sinuses / Q000601:surgery*; D019465:Craniofacial Abnormalities / Q000601:surgery*; D003399:Craniotomy / Q000379:methods*; D004954:Esthetics; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant