Conversion Furlow palatoplasty: Salvage of speech after straight-line palatoplasty and "incomplete intravelar veloplasty"

Annals of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 505-510

  Noorchashm, Negin ^a   Dudas, Jason R ^a   Ford, Matthew ^a   Gastman, Brian ^a   Deleyiannis, Fredrick W B ^a   Vecchione, Lisa ^a   Jiang, Shao ^a   Cooper, Gregory M ^a   Haralam, Mary Ann ^a   Losee, Joseph E ^a  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Conversion Furlow palatoplasty; Intravelar veloplasty; Velopharyngeal insufficiency

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLEFT PALATE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONVERSION FURLOW PALATOPLASTY; FEMALE; HARD PALATE; HUMAN; MALE; PALATOPHARYNGEAL INCOMPETENCE; PALATOPLASTY; PITTSBURGH WEIGHTED SPEECH SCALE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; SOFT PALATE; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HUMANS; PALATE, SOFT; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPEECH DISORDERS; VELOPHARYNGEAL INSUFFICIENCY;

EID: 33745678009     PISSN: 01487043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.sap.0000210154.72830.3d     Document Type: Article

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