Bilaterally involved Tessier No. 4 cleft: case report.
Craniofacial clefts are rare among facial anomalies, with an incidence of 1.5 to 5 per 100,000 births, and 1 per 100 cases of cleft lip and palate. The Tessier No. 4 oro-ocular cleft is one of the rarest, with 33 unilateral and bilateral clefts reported in the literature. Among the bilateral clefts only 3 of 9 involved Tessier No. 4 cleft bilaterally. We report a case of bilateral Tessier No. 4 craniofacial cleft and our approach to surgical correction.
Aköz
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Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Department, Ankara Numune Community Hospital, Turkey.
Erdoğan
B
B
Görgü
M
M
Kutlay
R
R
Dağ
F
F
D002971:Cleft Lip / Q000601:surgery*; D002972:Cleft Palate / Q000145:classification / Q000601:surgery*; D005124:Eye Abnormalities / Q000601:surgery; D005145:Face / Q000002:abnormalities*; D005147:Facial Bones / Q000002:abnormalities*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D012886:Skull / Q000002:abnormalities*; D013518:Surgery, Plastic / Q000379:methods