Methods: Out of 145 children operated on of monobloc advancements, 8 Children with Crouzon (mean age 8.62 ± 1.25) and 6 with Pfeiffer (mean age 8.18 ± 2.29), all between… Click to show full abstract
Methods: Out of 145 children operated on of monobloc advancements, 8 Children with Crouzon (mean age 8.62 ± 1.25) and 6 with Pfeiffer (mean age 8.18 ± 2.29), all between 6 and 12 years of age, underwent several psychological testings, for evaluation of executive function, attention deficits as well as elaboration capacities: Specific cognitive tests for executive functions (WISCIV, WNV, Animal Stroop Test, TEA-Ch, Tower of London Test, Corsi block-tapping test), attentional functions (TEA-Ch) and social cognition (NEPSY-II) were conducted after an initial assessment using Raven’s Progressive Matrices (PM-47). A BRIEF questionnaire was filled by the parents of the children before every assessment. All of them had been operated on of a frontofacial monobloc advancement with internal distraction at a mean age of 34 months.
               
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