Reconstruction of persistent oronasal communication using an anteriorly based tongue flap following failed cleft palate repair—Report of two cases

The tongue flap is a suitable alternative to local mucoperiosteal flaps in closure of wide, persistent oronasal communications, surrounded by scarred and fibrotic tissue as a result of previously attempted palatoplasty. Herein, we report two cases with large recurrent oronasal communication closed u...

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Autores principales: Guthua, Symon, Sarna, Krishan, Kamau, Martin, Ng'ang'a, Peter M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2023
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9995814/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36911636
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.7066
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author Guthua, Symon
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description The tongue flap is a suitable alternative to local mucoperiosteal flaps in closure of wide, persistent oronasal communications, surrounded by scarred and fibrotic tissue as a result of previously attempted palatoplasty. Herein, we report two cases with large recurrent oronasal communication closed using the anteriorly based dorsal tongue flap.
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spelling pubmed-99958142023-03-10 Reconstruction of persistent oronasal communication using an anteriorly based tongue flap following failed cleft palate repair—Report of two cases Guthua, Symon Sarna, Krishan Kamau, Martin Ng'ang'a, Peter M. Clin Case Rep Case Report The tongue flap is a suitable alternative to local mucoperiosteal flaps in closure of wide, persistent oronasal communications, surrounded by scarred and fibrotic tissue as a result of previously attempted palatoplasty. Herein, we report two cases with large recurrent oronasal communication closed using the anteriorly based dorsal tongue flap. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2023-03-08 /pmc/articles/PMC9995814/ /pubmed/36911636 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.7066 Text en © 2023 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Reconstruction of persistent oronasal communication using an anteriorly based tongue flap following failed cleft palate repair—Report of two cases
title Reconstruction of persistent oronasal communication using an anteriorly based tongue flap following failed cleft palate repair—Report of two cases
title_full Reconstruction of persistent oronasal communication using an anteriorly based tongue flap following failed cleft palate repair—Report of two cases
title_fullStr Reconstruction of persistent oronasal communication using an anteriorly based tongue flap following failed cleft palate repair—Report of two cases
title_full_unstemmed Reconstruction of persistent oronasal communication using an anteriorly based tongue flap following failed cleft palate repair—Report of two cases
title_short Reconstruction of persistent oronasal communication using an anteriorly based tongue flap following failed cleft palate repair—Report of two cases
title_sort reconstruction of persistent oronasal communication using an anteriorly based tongue flap following failed cleft palate repair—report of two cases
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9995814/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.7066
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