Objective. To review the results and complications of the surgical treatment of craniosynostosis in 283 consecutive patients treated between 1999 and 2007. Patients and methods. Our series consisted of 330 procedures performed in 283 patients diagnosed with scaphocephaly (n=155), trigonocephaly (n=50), anterior plagiocephaly (n=28), occipital plagiocephaly (n=1), non-syndromic multi-suture syno...

This study describes the peroperative endoscopic findings about the size, shape and mucosal changes of the middle turbinate in patients with chronic sinusitis who underwent total spheno-ethmoidectomy. Results confirmed the middle turbinate to be a useful landmark in performing extensive sinus surgery. The most frequent change due to chronic inflammation seems to be polypous degeneration followe...

abstract background: the cosmetic result of the surgical scar has long been considered by surgeons as an important factor for patient satisfaction. on the other hand, there has been an old teaching that perfect closure of contaminated wounds increases the rate of infection. we decided to look into this matter and see if this is a fact or a myth. methods: in this prospective randomized study con...

The aim of this study is to show the cranial alterations that Klippel-Feil syndrome produced in a case older than 200 years. Few paleopathological studies diagnosed as Syndrome are focused on abnormalities. A skull numbered 778, belonging Federico Olóriz Aguilera collection (Spain, 19th century AD), Universidad Complutense de Madrid, young man born town North Spain, was investigated. This crani...

Abstract Introduction Spheno-orbital meningiomas are characterized by bone invasion with extensive hyperostosis and possible encroachment into the orbit, infra-temporal fossa, and/or cavernous sinus that render total surgical excision challenging. The technique utilized is a key factor facilitating complete resection hence improvement of proptosis accompanying visual symptoms. Methods This retr...

This report details a technique for spheno-orbital reconstruction after meningioma resection. The approach uses a life-size skull model generated from a thin-slice craniomaxillofacial computed tomogram. On this skull model, the planned area of bone removal of the involved orbit and sphenoid is outlined on the normal side opposite the lesion. A three-dimensional implant is then generated by reve...

Surgical induction of endolymphatic hydrops (ELH) in the guinea pig by obliteration and obstruction of the endolymphatic duct is a well-accepted animal model of the condition and an important correlate for human Meniere's disease. In 1965, Robert Kimura and Harold Schuknecht first described an intradural approach for obstruction of the endolymphatic duct (Kimura 1965). Although effective, this ...

A PARTIAL skeleton of a crested hadrosaurian dinosaur, collected by the Smithsonian PaiecLtological Expedition of 1928, is unique in having the occipital region of the skuU disarticulated, thus displaying structural features not before observed in the Hadrosauridae. The specimen (U.S.N.M. no. 11893) comes from the Two Medicine formation of the Upper Cretaceoas and was found by G. F. Sternberg o...