Bilaterally involved Tessier No. 4 Cleft: Case report
Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Journal, cilt.33, sa.3, ss.252-254, 1996 (Scopus)
- Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
- Cilt numarası: 33 Sayı: 3
- Basım Tarihi: 1996
- Dergi Adı: Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Journal
- Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Scopus
- Sayfa Sayıları: ss.252-254
- Anahtar Kelimeler: cleft palate, craniofacial cleft, Tessier No. 4 cleft
- Maltepe Üniversitesi Adresli: Hayır
Özet
Craniofacial clefts are rare among facial anomalies, with an incidence of 1.5 to 5 per 100,000 births, and 1 per 100 cases of cleft lip and palate. The Tessier No. 4 oro-ocular cleft is one of the rarest, with 33 unilateral and bilateral clefts reported in the literature. Among the bilateral clefts only 3 of 9 involved Tessier No. 4 cleft bilaterally. We report a case of bilateral Tessier No. 4 craniofacial cleft and our approach to surgical correction.