A novel anthropometric chart for craniofacial surgery.

Various indices and measurements of the growing cranial vault exist, but there is no single head-shape chart specific to craniofacial surgery. The authors have produced a reliable head-shape chart that will enable accurate charting of patients with craniosynostosis both in the preoperative and postoperative period.One thousand eighty-two participants were used to obtain normal anthropometric measurements, specifically the ear-to-ear measurement and the glabella-to-external occipital protuberance measurement.

Late subperiosteal hematomata associated with craniofacial surgery.

Hematomata are well-recognized complications of surgery. Subperiosteal hematomata occur rarely and have not been well documented after craniofacial surgery. It is possible that craniofacial surgery increases the likelihood of subperiosteal hematomata occurring after minor trauma, even long after surgery, with a risk of subsequent ossification.