The importance of radical intravelar veloplasty during two-flap palatoplasty

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 122, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1121-1130

  Andrades, Patricio ^a,b   Espinosa De Los Monteros, Antonio ^a,b   Shell, Dan H ^a,b   Thurston, Todd E ^a,b   Fowler, Jessica S ^a,b   Xavier, Sudeep T ^a,b   Ray, Peter D ^a,b   Grant, John H ^a,b  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CLEFT PALATE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISSECTION; FEMALE; FISTULA; FOLLOW UP; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HEMOSTASIS; HUMAN; INFANT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MORBIDITY; NOSE AIRFLOW; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; ORAL SURGERY; ORONASAL FISTULA; PALATOPHARYNGEAL INCOMPETENCE; PALATOPLASTY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PREDICTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADICAL INTRAVELAR VELOPLASTY; REOPERATION; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RESPIRATORY TRACT INTUBATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SECONDARY PALATE; SOFT PALATE; SPEECH; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PATHOLOGIST; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TISSUE FLAP; TREATMENT OUTCOME; COMPARATIVE STUDY; METHODOLOGY; PLASTIC SURGERY;

CLEFT PALATE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL FLAPS; VELOPHARYNGEAL INSUFFICIENCY;

EID: 53149153161     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e3181845a21     Document Type: Article

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