Single Sutural Craniosynostoses: Surgical Outcomes and Long-Term Growth

Abstract

Treatment of single sutural synostosis was extremely safe with very low reoperative rates, but subsequent calvarial growth was abnormal, with a tendency toward recapitulation of the primary deformity. Growth was less diminished in procedures performed in older infants. Surgeons treating single sutural craniosynostosis should consider expanding treatment goals beyond normalization to an overcorrection of the abnormal skull shape.