The children's hospital of philadelphia modification of the furlow double-opposing Z-palatoplasty: 30-year experience and long-term speech outcomes

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 132, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 613-622

  Jackson, Oksana ^a   Stransky, Carrie A ^b   Jawad, Abbas F ^b   Basta, Marten ^b   Solot, Cynthia ^b   Cohen, Marilyn ^b   Kirschner, Richard ^b   Low, David W ^b   Randall, Peter ^b   Larossa, Don ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; CHILD; CLEFT PALATE; EVALUATION STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; NOSE DISEASES; ORAL FISTULA; ORTHOGNATHIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROCEDURES; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; ARTICLE; METHODOLOGY; NOSE DISEASE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; STATISTICS;

AGE FACTORS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLEFT PALATE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOSPITALS, PEDIATRIC; HUMANS; INFANT; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; NOSE DISEASES; ORAL FISTULA; ORTHOGNATHIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; PHILADELPHIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84883598559     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e31829ad109     Document Type: Conference Paper

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