Tongue flap repair of oro-nasal fistulae in cleft palate patients. A review of 20 patients.
At University College Hospital, between 1980 and 1985, sixty patients with cleft lip and palate deformity underwent transpalatal maxillary advancement for the correction of mid-face hypoplasia. One third of these patients subsequently required closure of oro-nasal fistulae and we present the results of these twenty cases where anteriorly based dorsal tongue flaps were used. Seventeen were successful and the causes of three failures are discussed.
Dept. of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, University College Hospital, London, Great Britain.
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Coghlan
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O'Regan
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Carter
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002971:Cleft Lip / Q000601:surgery; D002972:Cleft Palate / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009957:Oroantral Fistula / Q000601:surgery*; D011183:Postoperative Complications; D013524:Surgical Flaps; D014059:Tongue / Q000098:blood supply / Q000601:surgery*