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1Department of Plastic Surgery, and Center for Advanced Medical Education by BK21 project, Inha University School of Medicine, Incheon, Korea.
Abstract:
I report a patient with perforation in the submucous cleft palate (SMCP) due to hot food burn. A 27-year-old woman developed a hole in her velum after a burn due to ingestion of hot food. On examination, the velum showed an SMCP with a perforation on the midline notching at the posterior edge of the hard palate. The mucosal brim of the perforation was excised, and the hole was closed at the time of repair of SMCP with V-Y push-back method. In this case, we can see that the perforation can occur by minor thermal injury in SMCP patent.
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