title: Unicoronal synostotic plagiocephaly: surgical correction: Lille's technique.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  For 35 years, we have a tight neuro-plastic surgical cooperation for the surgical correction and long-term systematic follow-up of 125 cases of unicoronal synostotic plagiocephaly.
  
  
  METHODS
  We have tried to understand why some patients had kept an asymmetrical facial growth pattern in spite of a good fronto orbital correction. Analysis in vestibular orientation which was available from 1993 has demonstrated a discrepancy between the ocular and the vestibular verticality referential system. So we have designed a surgical procedure to try to fix that problem.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Preliminary results in 27 cases operated according to this procedure, for which we have pre- and post-CT scan demonstrate significative improvements of our results.
authors.affiliation: French National Center for Rare Craniomaxillofacial Malformations, Lille University Hospital, Lille, France. philippe.pellerin@chru-lille.fr
authors.forename: Philippe
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Pellerin
authors.forename: Clotilde
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Calibre
authors.forename: Matthieu
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Vinchon
authors.forename: Patrick
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Dhellemmes
authors.forename: Alexis
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Wolber
authors.forename: Pierre
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Guerreschi
mesh_terms: D003398:Craniosynostoses / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D003399:Craniotomy / Q000379:methods*; D005147:Facial Bones / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D005624:Frontal Bone / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D011182:Postoperative Care; D019651:Plastic Surgery Procedures / Q000379:methods*; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed