title: [Diagnosis and treatment of congenital recessive cleft palate].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To explore an effective method to diagnose and treat the congenital recessive cleft palate.
  
  
  METHODS
  For the treatment of congenital recessive cleft palate, an operation was designed to recover the anatomic length and function mobility of the soft palate. The operation procedure includes incising vertically the midline mucous membrane of the soft palate, creating and pushing back the mucosal flap of the hard palate, making Z-plasty on the nasal mucosa, reconstructing the sling of the levator veli palatini muscle and repairing the palatal defects with the buccinator muscularis mucosae flap. 12 cases of congenital recessive cleft palate have treated with this method.
  
  
  RESULTS
  All of the 12 cases obtained good results. Their pronunciation improved obviously.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The method is effective for diagnosis and treatment of congenital recessive palate, which is worthy of further application.
authors.affiliation: Plastic Surgery Hospital of Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing 100041, China.
authors.forename: Qiang
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Senkai
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Zhenmin
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Zhao
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002972:Cleft Palate / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male