Primary cheiloplasty: ambulatory surgical technique in African countries
Alquier, R.P.; Pochan, Y.
Medecine Tropicale Revue du Corps de Sante Colonial 51(1): 93-101
1991
ISSN/ISBN: 0025-682X PMID: 2072858 Document Number: 368005
In Djibouti, as in many developing countries, one particular aspect of primary cheiloplasty is that it concerns adults in more than 50% of cases. For these adults, afflicted with congenital cleft lip, the authors describe an out-patient surgical technique: loco-regional anesthesia of the superior maxillary nerve, use of the Tennisson incision, reconstruction of labial muscle performed following the principles of G. Couly.