Interdisciplinary Cuban staff of craniofacial surgery in Pediatrics: Results from a five-year period
Keywords:
Craniofacial surgery, cranial and maxillofacial congenital deformities, interdisciplinary craniofacial surgery staffAbstract
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
Márquez" 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.
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