A triangular flap operation for the primary repair of unilateral clefts of the lip.
A triangular flap operation for the primary repair of unilateral clefts of the lip.
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10.1097/00006534-195904000-00003
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1959-04-01
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RANDALL, P
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RANDALL, P
332 PLASTIC &: RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY Vol. 23, No. 4 visible so why not preserve it?... It seems logical that an operation that preserves what appears to be a normal Cupid's bow formation should receive utmost consideration.” Cardoso" earlier noted that many of the usual methods of repair had little regard for the preservation of the normal Cupid's bow. It has been generally accepted that a flap of tissue from the lateral side of the cleft is usually needed to fill the “deficiency at the lower border on the columellar side.... Patterns that have been tried included rectangular flaps, square flaps, round flaps, triangular flaps, flaps from the columellar side, flaps from the alar side and interdigitating “saw-tooth'flaps from both sides." Occasionally in a minimal cleft there seems to be no “deficiency,” and closure, using some sort of “V” excision without a flap, has been quite satisfactory. However, in dropping the displaced Cupid's bow down to a horizontal position, Skoog" notes that the defect so produced is a triangular one and therefore, a triangular flap from the lateral side seems logical.Triangular flaps of one sort or another have been used for years, and Mirault" is usually considered one of the original advocates of the lateral triangular flap. However, he used triangular flaps from both the medial as well as the lateral side of the cleft, with various types of design. Marcks and co-workers" credit Tennison" for having presented an outstandingly different and practical approach with his triangular fiap operation. The flaps used by both of these surgeons are quite large and although these are shown to produce excellent results in children with wide defects, in narrower clefts it would seem that a much smaller flap could be used to better advantage.