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Research Article| Volume 23, P39-44, 1970

Cineradiographic assessment of combined island flap pushback and pharyngeal flap in the surgical management of submucous cleft palate

  • Author Footnotes
    2 Plastic Surgeon-in-Chief, The Barnes and Allied Hospitals and The St Louis Children's Hospital, The Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri 63110.
    John E. Hoopes
    Footnotes
    2 Plastic Surgeon-in-Chief, The Barnes and Allied Hospitals and The St Louis Children's Hospital, The Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri 63110.
    Affiliations
    Division of Plastic Surgery, the Department of Radiology, and the Division of Otolaryngology, The Johns Hopkins Hospital and The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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    3 Henry Strong Denison Scholar for 1968–1969.
    A. Lee Dellon
    Footnotes
    3 Henry Strong Denison Scholar for 1968–1969.
    Affiliations
    Division of Plastic Surgery, the Department of Radiology, and the Division of Otolaryngology, The Johns Hopkins Hospital and The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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  • Jacob I. Fabrikant
    Affiliations
    Division of Plastic Surgery, the Department of Radiology, and the Division of Otolaryngology, The Johns Hopkins Hospital and The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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  • Ann H. Soliman
    Affiliations
    Division of Plastic Surgery, the Department of Radiology, and the Division of Otolaryngology, The Johns Hopkins Hospital and The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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  • Author Footnotes
    2 Plastic Surgeon-in-Chief, The Barnes and Allied Hospitals and The St Louis Children's Hospital, The Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri 63110.
    3 Henry Strong Denison Scholar for 1968–1969.
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      Summary

      The application of cineradiographic analysis to the diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis of cleft palate speech is presented.
      Posterior displacement of the levator veli palatini insertion is essential in the surgical correction of velopharyngeal incompetence.

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