Unilateral cleft lip repair.
An accounting is made of twenty years' experience with a triangular flap method of cleft lip repair using a 60 degree tip angle. The inherent difficulty in standardizing the method to ensure a perfect length has been overcome by reducing the problem to a mathematical one--with a mathematical solution. A cleft lip pattern has been designed to facilitate and ensure an accurate end result.
D002971:Cleft Lip / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008046:Lip / Q000033:anatomy & histology; D008433:Mathematics; D009666:Nose / Q000033:anatomy & histology; D013524:Surgical Flaps / Q000379:methods*