The congenital muscular torticollis is common disease in children.The indication for surgery is the children have persist deformity after 1 year old.Many surgical treatment had proposed such as unipolar release and bipolar release.By author experience the bipolar release had better results from complete cut the muscle both origin and insertion.This study wants to study the results of treatment in term of recurrence of the deformity.
the study perform in children with congenital muscular torticollis
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NA
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
20
the bipolar release is the surgery that cut the origin and insertion of the sternocleidomastoid muscle that cause the torticollis from its contracture
Prof.Dr.Kamolporn Kaewpornsawan
Bangkok, Thailand
RECRUITINGImageJ scoring system
measurement from pictures of head and face compared to normal children score 1-3 in 5 measurement in total score of 15 as interval scale score has 4 grade 13-15 is excellent results score 10-12 good result 7-9 fair less than 6 score is poor result after surgery
Time frame: no torticollis after 1 year of surgery
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