Cleft palate repair using a marginal musculo-mucosal flap

Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Journal

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 651-655

  Ogata, Hisao ^a   Nakajima, Tatsuo ^a   Onishi, Fumio ^a   Tamada, Ikkei ^a   Hikosaka, Makoto ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cleft palate; Intravelar veloplasty; Palatoplasty

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CLEFT PALATE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CRANIOFACIAL SURGERY; HARD PALATE; HUMAN; INFANT; MARGINAL MUSCULOMUCOSAL FLAP; NOSE MUCOSA; PALATOPLASTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOFT PALATE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BIOLOGICAL DRESSINGS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLEFT PALATE; HUMANS; INFANT; NASAL MUCOSA; NOSE DISEASES; ORAL FISTULA; PALATAL MUSCLES; PALATE, HARD; PALATE, SOFT; PERIOSTEUM; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RESPIRATORY TRACT FISTULA; SURGICAL FLAPS; SUTURE TECHNIQUES;

EID: 33751222588     PISSN: 10556656     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1597/05-011     Document Type: Article

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