The modified folded pharyngeal flap operation for the treatment of velopharyngeal insufficiency

Pharyngeal flaps have a long-established place in surgery for velopharyngeal insufficiency and many designs of pharyngeal flap have been described. Here we describe a modification of the folded pharyngeal flap operation by Issiki. With our procedure, the base of the pharyngeal flap is located at the...

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Main Authors: Naoshige Iida, Ayako Watanabe, Setsuko Shoji, Yosuke Ando
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2017-03-01
Series:JPRAS Open
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352587817300062