%0 Journal Article
%T Equipo cubano interdisciplinario de cirug¨ªa craneofacial en pediatr¨ªa: Resultados de un quinquenio
%A Vila Morales
%A Dadonim
%A Leyva Mastrapa
%A Tania
%A Alonso Fern¨¢ndez
%A Luis
%A S¨¢nchez Cabrales
%A Ernesto
%A Lazo Montero
%A Juan Carlos
%J Revista Cubana de Estomatolog£¿-a
%D 2010
%I Editorial Ciencias M¨¦dicas
%X most of the craniofacial deformities are due to alterations of growth, development, traumata and neoplasms. to describe the integral surgical treatment of above deformities, a cross-sectional and descriptive study was conducted in 46 patients treated by the interdisciplinary staff of craniofacial surgery from the "juan manuel m¨¢rquez" university children hospital from may, 2003 to march, 2007. the more frequent deformity was the craniosynostosis (57 %), specifically the plagiocephaly (17 %). most of patients were of white race (70 %) and were operated don between the first and the seventh year of life (57 %) for a mean of 6,3 years. generally there wasn't sex predominance. a total of 18 different surgical techniques were used. there were 5 complications during the postoperative period (11 %), a decease (2.2 %), a ophthalmoplegia (2.2 %), two cerebrospinal fluid leakage (4.4 %) and a desaturation by depression of respiratory center (2.2 %). with the exception of ophthalmoplegia there was a resolution of complications in a 15 days interval. results reported by this unique cuban staff are outstanding compared with international literature.
%K craniofacial surgery
%K cranial and maxillofacial congenital deformities
%K interdisciplinary craniofacial surgery staff.
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