Frontobasilar Fractures: Contemporary Management
Approximately 5% of patients presenting to a level 1 trauma center in the United States will have sustained basilar skull injuries. The etiology of frontobasilar trauma is variable but is…
Evolution of Endoscopic Endonasal Surgery of the Skull Base and Paranasal Sinuses
For more than 1 hundred years, lesions and disorders of the skull base have provided significant challenges to neurosurgeons, otolaryngologists, and craniofacial surgeons for many reasons. Lesions of the skull…
Reconstruction of Skull Defects
Cranial defects occur among all ages from a wide variety of causes. Trauma, infection, congenital malformations, pathology, and tumors and their surgical management can all lead to skull abnormalities and…
The Coronal Scalp Flap: Surgical Technique
Use of incisions that minimize visible scars is an important principle of craniomaxillofacial surgery. To accomplish this goal, the coronal incision and scalp flap are frequently used during combined craniomaxillofacial…
Endoscopic Techniques for Craniosynostosis
Craniosynostosis and the abnormalities associated with this clinical entity pose significant challenges to the treating craniofacial and neurosurgeons caring for patients with these conditions. Ever since Lannelongue first introduced the…
Craniofacial Dysostosis Syndromes: Evaluation and Staged Reconstructive Approach
The term craniofacial dysostosis is used in a general way to describe syndromal forms of craniosynostosis. These disorders are characterized by sutural involvement that not only includes the cranial vault…
Reconstruction of Frontoethmoidal Encephalocele Defects
… nasofrontal lesions are uncommon, frequently diagnosed incorrectly, and treated in a haphazard fashion. —(Davis and Alexander, 1959) Encephaloceles, historically termed cranium bifidum, were first documented in the medical literature…
Craniosynostosis: Diagnosis and Surgical Management
The infant brain develops at a rapid rate during the first few months of life. The cerebral volume doubles during the first 6 months and doubles again by the first…
