title: [Median inferior cervicomandibular cleft: a case report, etiologic and therapeutic aspects].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The orofacial clefts include 30 variant according to Tessier classification: the number 30 contain mandibular arc damage isolated or associated with damage of surrounding soft tissue.
  
  
  METHODS
  Our patient was a newborn with median mandibular cleft associated with ankyloglossia, bifid tongue and a top cervical fistula. We have not found polymalformative syndrome. The early surgical management included one time and after-effect were simple within 11 months.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  We point out difficulties for antenatal diagnosis and controversy about appropriate time for surgical management of the bone defect. The last physiopathologic hypotheses were explicated.
authors: Service de chirurgie plastique pédiatrique, groupe hospitalier Cochin-Saint-Vincent-de-Paul-La Roche Guyon, Paris, France. romainlavocat75@gmail.com
authors: R
authors: R
authors: Lavocat
authors: J-D
authors: JD
authors: Szwebel
authors: M
authors: M
authors: Mitrofanoff