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Internal calvarial bone distraction in rabbits with delayed-onset coronal suture synostosis.

Abstract：

:Recent studies have identified a subpopulation of craniosynostotic individuals who exhibit progressive or delayed-onset synostosis and mild craniofacial growth abnormalities. These individuals may be good candidates for nonextirpation, distraction osteogenesis therapy. The present study was designed to test this hypothesis by using internal calvarial bone distraction in a rabbit model with familial delayed-onset craniosynostosis. Data were collected from 159 rabbits: 71 normal controls, 72 with delayed-onset coronal suture synostosis, 8 with delayed-onset coronal suture synostosis and coronal suturectomy, and 8 with delayed-onset coronal suture synostosis and distraction. At 10 days of age, all rabbits had amalgam markers placed on both sides of the frontonasal, coronal, and anterior lambdoidal sutures. At 25 days of age, correction was accomplished through either a 5-mm-wide suturectomy or distraction osteogenesis. An internal distraction appliance was fixed to the frontal and parietal bones and percutaneously and intermittently activated at an average of 0.10 mm/day for 42 days (4.11 mm total). Serial radiographs were taken at 10, 25, 42, and 84 days of age. Results revealed that rabbits with delayed-onset synostosis had significantly (p < 0.01) reduced coronal suture growth rates (0.04 mm/day) compared with the other three groups (0.07 mm/day). Rabbits with suturectomy and rabbits with distraction showed similar coronal suture responses. However, from 42 to 84 days of age, rabbits with distraction showed reduced growth at the vault sutures and abnormal growth patterns in cranial vault width, cranial vault shape, and cranial base angulation compared with the other three groups. Results demonstrated that, although the normal coronal suture growth rate was maintained in rabbits with delayed-onset synostosis using intermittent distraction osteogenesis, normal adult craniofacial structure was not achieved. Such anomalous growth was probably a result of altered growth vectors and compressive forces at adjacent sutures during distraction. These findings suggest that distraction osteogenesis without corticotomy may be a treatment alternative in individuals with progressive, delayed-onset synostosis, but that internal appliances that generate low-level, continuous distractive forces should be investigated and developed.

journal_name

Plast Reconstr Surg

journal_title

Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors

Losken HW,Mooney MP,Zoldos J,Tschakaloff A,Burrows AM,Smith TD,Cooper GM,Kapucu MR,Siegel MI

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1998-09-01 00:00:00

pages

1109-19; discussion 1120-1

issue

eissn

0032-1052

issn

1529-4242

journal_volume

102

pub_type

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Internal calvarial bone distraction in rabbits with delayed-onset coronal suture synostosis.