Our treatment of cleft lip and cleft palate. 1998

M Muraoka, and Y Nakai
Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Osaka City University Medical School, Japan.

Our principle in cleft lip and cleft palate repair is all-round personal treatment. That is, treatment concentrates not only on cleft lip and cleft palate repair, but also considers the patient comprehensively in terms of his or her personality. In this report, we present patients with cleft lips and/or cleft palates for whom we performed surgical treatments in the past 25 years. We performed primary operations for 402 patients and secondary operations for 120. Cleft lip and cleft palate should be managed with consideration for otolaryngeal aspects as well as plastic surgical ones because of the nature of the disease. We therefore treated our patients from the standpoints of both medical fields, and gained much appreciation from parents whose children suffered from the congenital anomaly.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D007223 Infant A child between 1 and 23 months of age. Infants
D008297 Male Males
D002648 Child A person 6 to 12 years of age. An individual 2 to 5 years old is CHILD, PRESCHOOL. Children
D002675 Child, Preschool A child between the ages of 2 and 5. Children, Preschool,Preschool Child,Preschool Children
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
D005260 Female Females
D006801 Humans Members of the species Homo sapiens. Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man

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