Cover Image

A rare case of Sub mucous cleft palate wit Palatal fistula - Case report and Literature review.

NAVEEN KUMAR HOLENARASIPURRANGEGOWDA

Abstract


It is difficult to diagnose Sub mucous
cleft palate (SMP) earlier in life if one of
the criteria like bifid uvula is absent and
the presence of palatal fistula (PF) in
such cases can be considered as the diagnostic
criteria for SMP. In our case
one year old child was apparently normal
at birth without bifid uvula when she developed
fistula of soft palate at two
months of age which was noticed by her
parents. Patient underwent successful
fistula closure and intravelar veloplasty at
1 year of age. By reviewing the literature
we concluded that Palatal fistula can also
be considered as one of the criteria for
the diagnoses of SMP either early or late
in life and is the indication for palatoplasty
before development of VPI.


Full Text:

PDF

References


Gosain AK, Conley SF, Marks S,

Larson DL. Submucous cleft palate:

diagnostic methods and outcomes

of surgical treatment. Plast. Reconstr.

Surg. 1996;97(7):1497-1509.

Strong EB, Buckmiller LM. Management

of the cleft palate. Facial

Plast Surg Clin North Am. 2001;9(1):15-25,

vii.

Weatherley-White RC, Sakura CY

Jr, Brenner LD, Stewart JM, Ott JE.

Submucous cleft palate. Its incidence,

natural history, and indications

for treatment. Plast. Reconstr.

Surg. 1972;49(3):297-304.

Amaratunga NA. Occurrence of

oronasal fistulas in operated cleft

palate patients. J. Oral Maxillofac. Surg.

;46(10):834-838.

Cheng N, Zhou M. Congenital fistula

of the palate. J Craniomaxillofac

Surg. 1998;26(6):391-393.

Mehendale FV, Sommerlad BC.

Submucous cleft palates presenting

with a perforation. The Cleft palatecraniofacial

journal. 2003;40(2):203–206.

Karacan M, Olgun H, Tan O,

Caner I. Isolated congenital palatal

fistula without submucous cleft palate.

J Craniofac Surg. 2009;20(5):1606-

Calnan J. Submucouscleft palate.

BrJPlastSurg 1954;6:264-82.


Refbacks

  • There are currently no refbacks.


Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

An Initiative of The Tamil Nadu Dr MGR Medical University