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Incidence of cleft palate fistula: an institutional experience with two-stage palatal repair.

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:The purpose of this study was to determine the incidence of cleft palatal fistula in a series of nonsyndromic children treated at the authors' institution. This retrospective analysis of 103 patients with cleft palate treated by five surgeons between 1982 and 1995 includes 60 boys and 33 girls, whose median age was 18.4 months at the time of surgery. The median length of follow-up was 4.9 years after primary palatoplasty. Cleft palatal fistula was defined as a failure of healing or a breakdown in the primary surgical repair of the palate. Intentionally unrepaired fistulas of the primary and secondary palate were excluded. Extent of clefting was described according to the Veau classification. Statistical examination of multiple variables was performed using contingency table analysis, multivariate logistic regression, and the Wilcoxon rank sum test. The incidence of cleft palatal fistula in this series was 8.7 percent. All of these fistulas were clinically significant. The rate of fistula recurrence was 33 percent. The incidence of cleft palatal fistula when compared by Veau classification was statistically significant, with nine fistulas occurring in patients with Veau 3 and 4 clefts and no fistulas occurring in patients with Veau 1 and 2 clefts (p = 0.0441). No significant differences between patients with and without fistulas were identified with respect to operating surgeon, patient sex, patient age at palatoplasty, type of palatoplasty, and use of presurgical orthopedics or palatal expansion. All three recurrent fistulas occurred in the anterior palate, two in patients with Veau class 3 clefts and one in a patient with a Veau class 4 cleft. The low rate of clinically significant fistula was attributed to early delayed primary closure, with smaller secondary clefts allowing repair with a minimum of dissection and disruption of vascularity.

journal_name

Plast Reconstr Surg

journal_title

Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors

Muzaffar AR,Byrd HS,Rohrich RJ,Johns DF,LeBlanc D,Beran SJ,Anderson C,Papaioannou aA A

doi

10.1097/00006534-200111000-00011

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2001-11-01 00:00:00

pages

1515-8

issue

eissn

0032-1052

issn

1529-4242

journal_volume

108

pub_type

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Incidence of cleft palate fistula: an institutional experience with two-stage palatal repair.