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[Labio-maxillary and velopalatine clefts. Clinical and therapeutic aspects]. 1991

G Couly

Service de stomatologie et chirurgie maxillo-faciale de l'enfant, hôpital des Enfants-Malades, Paris.

Harelip, facial cleft and cleft palate are frequent accidents of facial development. There is nothing special with their embryological mechanism, but their consequences concerning the future anatomy of the oral and nasal cavities are impressive. Owing to a better understanding of facial embryology and of the anatomical repercussions of the clefts, satisfactory morphological results can be obtained by surgical lip repair performed with an ever increasing precision.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D007223	Infant	A child between 1 and 23 months of age.	Infants
D008722	Methods	A series of steps taken in order to conduct research.	Techniques,Methodological Studies,Methodological Study,Procedures,Studies, Methodological,Study, Methodological,Method,Procedure,Technique
D002971	Cleft Lip	Congenital defect in the upper lip where the maxillary prominence fails to merge with the merged medial nasal prominences. It is thought to be caused by faulty migration of the mesoderm in the head region.	Harelip,Cleft Lips,Harelips,Lip, Cleft,Lips, Cleft
D002972	Cleft Palate	Congenital fissure of the soft and/or hard palate, due to faulty fusion.	Cleft Palate, Isolated,Cleft Palates,Palate, Cleft,Palates, Cleft
D006801	Humans	Members of the species Homo sapiens.	Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man