The Advantage of Cranium-Facial Approach over Surgical Treatment of the Volumetric Forming of the Face Skeleton in Children before Trans-Facial Accesses
Despite of the fact that the craniofacial approach has been successfully used for over forty years in our country as well as abroad, in some manuals and teaching aids - especially ones about ENT diseases - outdated methods for treatment of tumors and dysplastic processes of upper and middle face areas are still being advocated; at the best those obsolete approaches enable removal of tumors but leave scars and deformations for which reconstruction additional plastic surgery is needed. In our article we tried to expound the advantages of the craniofacial approach for surgical treatment of space-occupying lesions of children's facial skeleton, describe the operative techniques and substantiate the practicability of this approach clinically as well as anatomically.