Abstract:The treatment of combined major dislocations of the face and skull requires a craniofacial team consisting of a plastic maxillofacial surgeon, a neurosurgeon, an anesthesiologist, and radiologists. The best results can only be achieved at the primary intervention both from a functional and an esthetic standpoint. Careful preoperative clinical and radiologic examinations are mandatory to reach these high goals. In primary repair, the cranial approach aims at constructing "a monobloc bone flap" to suture meninge… Show more
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