Delayed buccal fat pad herniation: An unusual complication of buccal flap in cleft surgery

Buccal musculomucosal flap is commonly used in cleft palate surgery for providing additional lining when nasal mucosa is inadequate. We report an unusual complication of progressively increasing fat herniation from the sutured donor site which started appearing on the third postoperative day. This n...

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Autores principales: Tuli, Puneet, Parashar, Atul, Nanda, Vipul, Sharma, Ramesh K.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2009
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2772286/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19881029
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-0358.53019
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description Buccal musculomucosal flap is commonly used in cleft palate surgery for providing additional lining when nasal mucosa is inadequate. We report an unusual complication of progressively increasing fat herniation from the sutured donor site which started appearing on the third postoperative day. This necessitated excision of the protruding fat pad on the seventh postoperative day. The possible mechanism and precautions for prevention of this complication are discussed.
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spelling pubmed-27722862009-11-18 Delayed buccal fat pad herniation: An unusual complication of buccal flap in cleft surgery Tuli, Puneet Parashar, Atul Nanda, Vipul Sharma, Ramesh K. Indian J Plast Surg Case Report Buccal musculomucosal flap is commonly used in cleft palate surgery for providing additional lining when nasal mucosa is inadequate. We report an unusual complication of progressively increasing fat herniation from the sutured donor site which started appearing on the third postoperative day. This necessitated excision of the protruding fat pad on the seventh postoperative day. The possible mechanism and precautions for prevention of this complication are discussed. Medknow Publications 2009 /pmc/articles/PMC2772286/ /pubmed/19881029 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-0358.53019 Text en © Indian Journal of Plastic Surgery http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Sharma, Ramesh K.
Delayed buccal fat pad herniation: An unusual complication of buccal flap in cleft surgery
title Delayed buccal fat pad herniation: An unusual complication of buccal flap in cleft surgery
title_full Delayed buccal fat pad herniation: An unusual complication of buccal flap in cleft surgery
title_fullStr Delayed buccal fat pad herniation: An unusual complication of buccal flap in cleft surgery
title_full_unstemmed Delayed buccal fat pad herniation: An unusual complication of buccal flap in cleft surgery
title_short Delayed buccal fat pad herniation: An unusual complication of buccal flap in cleft surgery
title_sort delayed buccal fat pad herniation: an unusual complication of buccal flap in cleft surgery
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2772286/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19881029
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-0358.53019
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