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Microvascular Decompression: Salient Surgical Principles and Technical Nuances
Published on: July 5, 2011
Principles of management of complex craniofacial trauma
1Department of Veteran Affairs, Lexington, KY.
Abstract:
Successful treatment of patients with complex craniofacial injuries is heavily dependent on the surgeon's appreciation of the associated nonfacial injuries, precise clinical and diagnostic imaging examinations to establish a three-dimensional configuration of the fractured segments, and the application of well-established principles of facial fracture repair. Factors that influence improved treatment outcome are 1) early definitive treatment, 2) anatomic and functional repair of naso-orbito-ethmoidal injuries, 3) wide exposure of fracture segments, and 4) anatomic repositioning and stable fixation of fracture segments in all planes of space.
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