title: Frontal-orbital advancement for the management of anterior plagiocephaly.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The main purposes of this manuscript are to provide an overview of various modalities of surgical correction of anterior plagiocephaly and to emphasize their differences with the classic open frontal-orbital advancement.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Advancement of technology provides development of many other ways to achieve the same results. The authors describe the classic open frontal-orbital advancement and compare with other proposed techniques for correction of frontal plagiocephaly. The main limitation of the use of new forms of treatment of the anterior plagiocephaly is the age of the patient. There is still no consensus on criteria for quantitative evaluation of surgical results, and new forms of treatment do not present results with long follow-up.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Frontal-orbital advancement is the preferred procedure to correct unicoronal synostosis due to its universal indication regardless of the age and degree of deformation of the anterior plagiocephaly.
authors.affiliation: Pediatric Neurosurgery Division, Department of Neurosurgery, University of São Paulo School of Medicine, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil. matushita@uol.com.br
authors.forename: Hamilton
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Matushita
authors.forename: Nivaldo
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Alonso
authors.forename: Daniel Dante
authors.initials: DD
authors.lastname: Cardeal
authors.forename: Fernanda
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: de Andrade
mesh_terms: D003399:Craniotomy / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D005624:Frontal Bone / Q000002:abnormalities / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D059041:Plagiocephaly / Q000601:surgery*; D019651:Plastic Surgery Procedures / Q000379:methods*