Journal of Okayama Medical Association
Published by Okayama Medical Association

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Correction of whistling deformity in repaired cleft lip

Tanaka, Tohru
Ogura, Yoshio
Kishimoto, Hiroyuki
Tani, Wataru
Yoshida, Kazuko
Kurozumi, Nozomu
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Published Date
1977-02-28
Abstract
A simple technique for secondary correction of“whistling deformity" in bilateral cleft lip patient was presented. A patient, 13-year-old boy, had primary plastic surgery on his bilateral cleft lip at the age of two months, and left whistling defect as a sequela. He had the secondary repair by modified free composite graft procedure from the lower lip with satisfactory results.
ISSN
0030-1558
NCID
AN00032489