Congenita muscularis torticollis: Difference between revisions
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Latest revision as of 13:18, 19 November 2023
Congenital muscular torticollis is caused by shortening of the sternocleidomastoid muscle with the head tilted to the affected side.
- In general, torticollis can be congenital or acquired (ocular, neurogenic, psychogenic, secondary to infection or trauma);
- etiology of congenital torticollis: not exactly known (muscle rupture, intrauterine malposition, pressure, ischemia , genetic factors); incidence 0.4%; appears 2 weeks after birth, swelling increases within 4 months;
- treatment is surgical: total extirpation of the fibrotic sternocleidomastoid muscle, upper / lower tenotomy of the muscle attachment, Ferkel's operation (Z-plasty of the muscle with its lengthening).
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- Acquired neck deformities (plastic surgery)
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- MĚŠŤÁK, Jan. Úvod do plastické chirurgie. 1. edition. Praha : Univerzita Karlova v Praze - Nakladatelství Karolinum, 2005. 125 pp. ISBN 80-246-1150-3.
