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Upper Lip Fistulas: Three New Cases
- Source :
- The Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Journal. 39:457-460
- Publication Year :
- 2002
- Publisher :
- SAGE Publications, 2002.
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Abstract
- Objective We present three new cases of congenital upper lip fistula. Two of them were located in the philtrum midline, one of which was associated to a double maxillary frenulum, a medial lip cleft, and a medial cleft of the primitive palate. The other was located in the left side of the vermilion. All three patients had clear fluid discharge through the fistulous orifice without pain. Two of them had a history of recurrent swelling of the philtrum area. Conclusions A simple surgical excision is the treatment of choice in these cases, in which the anatomy is preserved; this fact is more consistent with a completed but aberrant development than with focal dysgenesis.
- Subjects :
- Labial Frenum
Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Cleft Lip
Cutaneous Fistula
Fistula
Lip Diseases
03 medical and health sciences
Dysgenesis
0302 clinical medicine
Frenulum
medicine
Humans
Child
030223 otorhinolaryngology
Median cleft lip
Philtrum
business.industry
030206 dentistry
Anatomy
medicine.disease
Surgery
Cleft Palate
medicine.anatomical_structure
Otorhinolaryngology
Oral Fistula
Child, Preschool
Female
Oral Surgery
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15451569 and 10556656
- Volume :
- 39
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- The Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Journal
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....18a8cac128df2d4b4b9830ed78d08439