Lateral pharyngeal wall and velar movement and tailoring velopharyngeal surgery: Determinants of velopharyngeal incompetence resolution in patients with cleft palate

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 120, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 495-505

  Lam, Eugene ^b   Hundert, Sharon ^b   Wilkes, Gordon H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLEFT PALATE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN; LATERAL PHARYNX WALL; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PALATE; PALATOPHARYNGEAL INCOMPETENCE; PHARYNX; PHARYNX RECONSTRUCTION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; SPEECH ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLEFT PALATE; HUMANS; OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; PALATE, SOFT; PHARYNX; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPEECH DISORDERS; SURGICAL FLAPS; VELOPHARYNGEAL INSUFFICIENCY;

EID: 34447545920     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.prs.0000267438.18295.e4     Document Type: Article

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