Rib cartilage is the workhorse autogenic material for laryngeal airway expansion surgery. Most usually one will use the right-sided 5th or 6th rib as the donor site. A 2.5 cm incision is made directly over the rib, in the inframammary crease from the lateral aspect of the nipple to the sternal xyphoid process. Subcutaneous fat […]
This video highlights the key points of successful open posterior costochondral laryngoplasty. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17797/i6v1c8ghhg
This procedure is a total calvarial vault expansion to correct pansynostosis in a three-year-old child. Total calvarial reconstruction is an open procedure that consists of removing bone flaps with an osteotome, outfracturing the skull bone edges with a rongeur to allow for future expansion, shaving down the bone flap inner table with a Hudson brace […]
Hepzibha Alexander, BSN – Children’s National Medical Center, Division of Neurosurgery and Georgetown University School of Medicine Ehsan Dowlati, MD – Children’s National Medical Center, Division of Neurosurgery and Medstar Georgetown University Hospital Deki Tsering, MS – Children’s National Medical Center, Division of Neurosurgery Robert Keating, MD – Children’s National Medical Center, Division of Neurosurgery […]
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