Through-and-through dissection of the soft palate for high pharyngeal flap inset: A new technique for the treatment of velopharyngeal incompetence in velocardiofacial syndrome

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 122, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 845-852

  Arneja, Jugpal S ^a   Hettinger, Patrick ^a   Gosain, Arun K ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLEFT PALATE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMAN; MALE; NASENDOSCOPY; PALATOPHARYNGEAL INCOMPETENCE; PHARYNX; PHARYNX FLAP; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SOFT PALATE DISSECTION; SPEECH; THROAT SURGERY; TISSUE FLAP; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VELOCARDIOFACIAL SYNDROME; DIGEORGE SYNDROME; METHODOLOGY; PLASTIC SURGERY; SOFT PALATE;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIGEORGE SYNDROME; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PALATE, SOFT; PHARYNX; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; SURGICAL FLAPS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VELOPHARYNGEAL INSUFFICIENCY;

EID: 52049086063     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e3181811a83     Document Type: Article

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