Postoperative Orbital Morphology Observations Following Fronto-Orbital Advancement and Cranial Vault Remodeling in...

Observations of preoperative and postoperative orbital morphology following fronto-orbital advancement and cranial vault remodeling (FOA and CVR) in patients with unilateral coronal synostosis (UCS).

This retrospective cohort included patients diagnosed with unilateral coronal synostosis and treated with fronto-orbital advancement and cranial vault remodeling at the Children's Hospital of Fudan University. The orbital height, orbital width, and orbital volume were obtained from head 3-dimensional computed tomography of preoperation and postoperation. The DICOM data of CT were then imported into mimics research version 21.0. The authors measured OH and OW according to the bony landmarks, then reset the parameters of the soft tissue window, and conducted a 3-dimensional reconstruction of the orbital soft tissue to get OV. The preoperative and postoperative measurements of the intact side were compared with the affected side, respectively. Statistical analysis was performed using SPSS version 25.0 (Ρ=0.05).

Twelve patients with UCS (5 male, 7 female) meeting criteria were included in the study. There were 4 patients with UCS on the left and 8 on the right. The average age at initial surgery was 19.50 months. Before the operation, the data of the intact side and the affected side were compared, respectively, and the difference was found to be significant in OH (Ρ=0.005) and OW (Ρ=0.005), while the OV (Ρ=0.106) was not statistically significant. After procedures of FOA and CVR, the data of the intact side and the affected side were compared, respectively, the significant difference was found in OV (Ρ=0.002), while not in OH (Ρ=0.060) or OW (Ρ=0.066).

After undergoing the operation of FOA and CVR, the OH and OW of the ipsilateral and contralateral sides of patients with UCS were basically symmetrical, while the volume of the affected orbit was still relatively smaller.