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Table 1 Techniques for repair of transverse facial cleft

From: Orbicularis oris muscle reconstruction and cheiloplasty with Z-plasty in a patient with a transverse facial cleft

Cutaneous closure

Commissural closure

Linear

Vermilion-mucosal flap/inferiorly based

Vermilion-mucosal flap/ superiorly based

Vermilion-mucosal-cutaneous flap

Commissure transposition

Cutaneous triangular flap

Linear

Blackfield and Wilde [22]

Powell and Jenkins [23]

Eguchi et al. [24]

 

Nagai and Weinstein [25]

Weinstein [26]

 

Kawai et al. [18]

Z-plasty

Boo-Chai [27]

Chen and Noordhoff [28]

Kaplan [29]

Aketa et al. [5]

Fukuda and Takeda [22]

Onizuka [30]

Yoshimura et al. [16]

Ono and Tateshita [31]

W-plasty

Habal and Scheuerle [32]

Habal and Scheuerle [32]

Itho et al. [33]

Bauer et al. [34]

May [35]

Fukuda and Takeda [22]