Back to Search
Start Over
Microsurgical Tissue Transfer for Rehabilitation of the Patient with Cleft Lip and Palate
- Source :
- The Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Journal. 39:560-567
- Publication Year :
- 2002
- Publisher :
- SAGE Publications, 2002.
-
Abstract
- Objective: Three case reports of microsurgically revascularized tissue transfer for secondary closure of complex oronasal fistulae in cleft lip and palate patients are reported. One scapular and two radial forearm flaps were used in that respect; the scapular flap was transferred without a skin paddle and was left for secondary epithelialization whereas iliac crest bone was transplanted in the two patients with the forearm flaps in a further surgical step. Conclusions: These microsurgical flaps represent solutions in selected cases of oronasal fistulae in patients with cleft lip and palate with extensive scarring, large defects, or both. Alternative free flaps of the vast spectrum available today, however, also deserve consideration.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
Microsurgery
medicine.medical_specialty
Cleft Lip
medicine.medical_treatment
Oral Surgical Procedures
Dentistry
Free flap
Iliac crest
Surgical Flaps
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Scapula
Forearm
Nose Diseases
medicine
Humans
Fascia
030223 otorhinolaryngology
business.industry
Microcirculation
Anastomosis, Surgical
Skin Transplantation
030206 dentistry
Middle Aged
Surgery
Cleft Palate
medicine.anatomical_structure
Otorhinolaryngology
Female
Oral Surgery
business
Oral Fistula
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15451569 and 10556656
- Volume :
- 39
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- The Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Journal
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....957a5a08e6958de01ae46e80e7143927