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A case of amniotic band syndrome with cleft lip and palate
Yutaka Doi1, Hitoshi Kawamata, Kazuhiro Asano
1Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, School of Medicine, Dokkyo Medical University, 880 Kitakobayashi, Mibu, Shimo-tsuga, Tochigi, 321-0293 Japan.
Journal of Maxillofacial and Oral Surgery
|December 4, 2012
Abstract:
The patient was a 5-day-old boy born at 37 weeks and 4 days. At birth, an amniotic band encircling and constricting his left middle finger was noted, in addition to multiple anomalies including a right-side cleft lip and palate, a club foot, and syndactyly on the left hand. We performed cheiloplasty at 5 months, and palatoplasty at 18 months.
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