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Marvin A Tañag1, Satoshi Takagi, Mariko Takashima
1Department of Plastic Surgery, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, 2-2 C11 Yamadaoka, Suita-shi, Osaka 565-0871, Japan. dr_marvin_tanag@yahoo.com
Scandinavian Journal of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and Hand Surgery
|September 22, 2007
Abstract:
We report a rare case of visual improvement in a 19-year-old patient with Apert syndrome after segmental distraction with a rigid external distraction device. We used the Rigid External Distraction Device II System (R.E.D. II, KLS Martin) after Le Fort I and III osteotomies.
