Arch Aesthetic Plast Surg.  2017 Oct;23(3):159-163. 10.14730/aaps.2017.23.3.159.

Aesthetic Correction of Severe Facial Asymmetry in a Deformational Plagiocephaly Patient: A Case Report and Literature Review

• Park JY
• Kim HJ
• Lee S
• Jung SG

• KMID: 2394324
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.14730/aaps.2017.23.3.159

Abstract

Deformational plagiocephaly (DP) (also referred to as positional plagiocephaly) has long posed challenges for plastic surgeons because it is difficult to differentiate from several other diseases, such as unilateral coronal synostosis, hemifacial microsomia, and unilateral lambdoidal craniosynostosis. These diseases can actually masquerade as DP or vice versa. Only in recent years has the differential diagnosis among these diseases become possible through improved imaging modalities, such as computed tomography, and a greater understanding of their pathophysiology. Herein, we report a rather rare, yet severe, form of DP that can easily be confused with the aforementioned diseases.

Keyword

Blepharoplasty; Facial asymmetry; Nonsynostotic; Plagiocephaly

MeSH Terms

Blepharoplasty
Craniosynostoses
Diagnosis, Differential
Facial Asymmetry*
Goldenhar Syndrome
Humans
Plagiocephaly
Plagiocephaly, Nonsynostotic*
Plastics
Surgeons
Plastics