Transactions of the Southern Surgical and Gynecological Association (1910) (14788600033)

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Title: Transactions of the Southern Surgical and Gynecological Association

Year: 1910 (1910s)

Authors: Southern Surgical and Gynecological Association (U.S.)

Subjects: Surgery Gynecology Surgery Genital Diseases, Female

Publisher: (S.l.) : The Association

Contributing Library: Yale University, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library

Digitizing Sponsor: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia and the National Endowment for the Humanities

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V, P. BLAIR 481 years, with a cleft that was wide in porportion to the availablepalate tissue. Dr. Le Grand Cox, of St. Louis, constructedthe apparatus for me from an expansion arch and in threeweeks produced the result shown in Fig. 4, B. The amountgained at the posterior part of the palate cleft is shown innumerals, while it will be seen that the projecting inter-maxillary process was pulled back into place and the alveolarpart of the cleft approximated. Fig. 4, C shows the finalresult, which was obtained without difficulty by the ordinaryoperation. After removing the clamps, the maxillae laterspring back to near their original positions. I believe that either of the methods just described will besufficient to care for any case of simple congenital cleftpalate, but one can resort to Kristers method of lengtheningthe velum with much greater promise of success if someextra tissue is available (see Fig. 5, A and B), and therestill remain those cases in which much or most of the softtis

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