Improved Global and Locomotor Development Folowing Surgery for Sagittal Synostosis

Abstract

Twenty eight children with sagittal synostosis (SS) were assessed pre- and postoperatively and their psychomotor development was compared with that in 28 normal controls and with 13 children with SS without surgical intervention, in a prospective longitudinal design study at St James’s University Hospital, Leeds, UK.

Keywords

• sagittal synostosis
• locomotor development
• cerebral palsy