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| Year : 2014 | Volume
: 9
| Issue : 3 | Page : 242-245 |
Secondary bicoronal synostosis after metopic craniosynostosis surgical reconstruction
Arash Esmaeli1, Farideh Nejat1, Zohreh Habibi1, Mostafa El Khashab2
1 Department of Neurosurgery, Children's Hospital Medical Center, Tehran University of Medical Science, Tehran, Iran
2 Department of Neurosurgery, Hackensack University Medical Center, New Jersey, USA
Correspondence Address:
Farideh Nejat
Department of Neurosurgery Children's Hospital Medical Center, Tehran University of Medical Science, Mailbox: Tehran, F. Nejat, 14155-7854, Tehran
Iran
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DOI: 10.4103/1817-1745.147578
Re-synostosis after standard surgical procedures for nonsyndromic craniosynostosis is a rare event, which can occur at the same suture or rarely in adjacent sutures. Here, we report 2 patients with primary metopic craniosynostosis who developed bicoronal synostosis in previously opened sutures several months after surgery.
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