title: The role of plastic surgeon in complex cephalic malformations. Our experience.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Our aim is focused on the field of action of plastic surgery in the cephalic malformation and on description of the surgical indications and techniques for their correction.
  
  
  METHODS
  We looked at 27 patients from 2006 to 2012 with cephalic district deformities. All patients underwent surgical and rehabilitative treatments.
  
  
  RESULTS
  After a median follow-up from one to five years, in most cases we reached both morphological and functional reconstruction, alone or in a surgical team together with other surgical disciplines.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The correction of craniofacial malformations makes use of a surgical discipline particularly demanding, which must associate a basic surgical training with a learning techniques specific to the area and a knowledge of craniofacial malformation.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The surgical treatment of craniofacial malformations can be seen only through a joint neurosurgical and plastic-maxillo-facial surgery, guided by knowledge of the malformation, under the close supervision of anesthetists and pediatricians. This surgery is not limited to remodel the morphology but has its bases on the recovery of the functions, maintained by rehabilitation treatment.
authors.forename: Stefano
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Chiumariello
authors.forename: Giuseppe
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Del Torto
authors.forename: Giuseppe
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Guarro
authors.forename: Carmine
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Alfano
mesh_terms: D001165:Arteriovenous Malformations / Q000534:rehabilitation / Q000601:surgery; D019465:Craniofacial Abnormalities / Q000534:rehabilitation / Q000601:surgery*; D003394:Craniofacial Dysostosis / Q000534:rehabilitation / Q000601:surgery; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006258:Head and Neck Neoplasms / Q000151:congenital / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D017253:Neurofibromatoses / Q000534:rehabilitation / Q000601:surgery; D019635:Neurosurgical Procedures / Q000379:methods*; D009506:Nevus / Q000151:congenital / Q000601:surgery; D010348:Patient Care Team; D010819:Physician's Role; D019651:Plastic Surgery Procedures / Q000379:methods*; D020127:Recovery of Function; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D013518:Surgery, Plastic