Aim: Cleft lip and palate (CLP) deformity is the most common type of craniofacial malformation usually corrected surgically in infancy. Anesthetic management children undergoing CLP repair has many challenges. In this study, it was aimed to evaluate effect prognostic factors on perioperative complications with cleft (CP) repair.
 Methods: pediatric cases who underwent surgery a tertiary ca...

Diagnosis and differentiation of branchial cleft anomalies rest on higher imaging modalities such as computed tomography (CT) or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). However, anatomical knowledge and meticulous characterization of anomaly on high resolution ultrasonography (HRUS) can clinch the diagnosis in most cases. Anomalies of the second branchial cleft account for 90% of the developmental ab...

UNLABELLED An infant with a type IV laryngotracheoesophageal cleft underwent transcervical repair using a long tapered cartilage graft. A laryngofissure was carried down to the innominate artery to expose the cleft that extended 5 mm inferior to the vessel. The edges of the cleft were excised, the trachealis was separated from the esophagus that was reapproximated, and clavicular periosteum was...

Thyroglossal duct cysts followed by branchial cleft anomalies are the most common congenital neck masses encountered in practice, second branchial cleft cysts and sinuses are the most common type (LaRiviere and Waldhausen in Surg Clin North Am 92(3):583-597, 2012). Although both abnormalities are common individually, but rarely seen associated in same patient as described in our case. Congenita...

Aims & Objectives: To assess the functional efficiency and adaptation of tongue musculature in surgically treated cleft Patients by measuring the amplitude of contraction, fractional shortening of tongue musculature and to compare the changes in functional adaptive efficiency following surgery using m-mode ultrasonography. Methods: The study was carried out on 90 cleft patients both with comple...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to determine the difference in prevalence of the different categories of facial cleft deformities between the white and black patients in a database of 2806 cleft cases at the University of Pretoria. No variation of clefts between these two groups has ever been compared previously. For this purpose, the clefts were classified according to the system descr...

BACKGROUND Financial, clinical, and psychological considerations have made same-day surgery an attractive option for a variety of procedures. This article aimed to analyse the postoperative results of same-day primary unilateral cleft nasolabial repair. METHODS This study was performed from 2011 to 2014. Unilateral cleft lip patients fulfilling the inclusion criteria were preoperatively class...

OBJECTIVE Children with a Cleft Palate (CLP) and with or without cleft lips (non-syndromic) universally present with Secretory Otitis Media (SOM). The purpose of this study was to determine the incidence of secretory otitis media that occurs in patients with cleft palates and to confirm the existence of these manifestations by doing a Basic Audiologic Evaluation (BAE). MATERIAL AND METHODS A ...

A 23 year old man presented with generalized tonic – clonic seizures. The patient had history of seizures since childhood. Patient had spastic hemiparesis of left side of the body since birth. He also had mild to moderate mental retardation, speech and behavioural abnormalities. Computed Tomography of brain was taken. CT revealed, a large cystic lesion isodense to CSF continuous with right late...

irst branchial cleft anomalies account for 8--10%1,2 of all ranchial cleft defects, representing approximately 17% of ll pediatric cervical masses. The low incidence and the arious clinical presentations of these congenital malformaions of the branchial apparatus make the diagnosis difficult ven for the experimented otolaryngologist. Depending on he type of the anomaly (fistula, sinus or cyst),...