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Hard and soft palate reconstruction

Current Opinion in Otolaryngology & Head and Neck Surgery, 2003
Palate reconstruction remains one of the most challenging areas for the head and neck reconstructive surgeon. Although small defects in the palate are managed without significant difficulty, larger defects, particularly total maxillectomy defects, require special attention. The lack of a uniform classification for palate defects has limited prospective
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Carcinoma of the soft palate

The Journal of Laryngology & Otology, 1992
AbstractDuring a 10 year period 30 patients with carinoma of the soft palate were treated. There were 22 cases in stages I and II. A curative dose of irradiation was used in 25 cases, fourof whom required surgical salvage. Another five cases were treated by a combined modality of surgery and postoperative radiation. Seven cases had nodal metastases.
D A, Tandon, S, Bahadur, G K, Rath
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Leiomyosarcoma of the soft palate

The Turkish Journal of Ear Nose and Throat, 2013
Tumors of the smooth muscles are rarely seen, as the number of smooth muscles is low within the intraoral region. Leiomyosarcoma is a type of malign tumor originating from smooth muscles. The most common regions of leiomyosarcoma of the oral cavity are the maxilla and mandible. In this article, we present a leiomyosarcoma detected in a 20-year-old male
SAĞLAM, Ömer, KUVAT, Samet Vasfi, TAŞKIN, Ümit, YILDIRIM, Alper, HOCAOĞLU, Emre   +4 more
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Infantile Myofibromatosis of the Soft Palate

Journal of Craniofacial Surgery, 2015
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Andrea, Romano, Fondazione, San Raffaele, Andrea, Cassoni, Filippo, Giovannetti, Maria Teresa, Fadda, Sara, Buonaccorsi, Valentina, Terenzi, Giorgio, Iannetti, Valentino, Valentini, Guido, Trasimeni, Alessandro, Bozzao   +10 more
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Speech outcomes after soft palate reconstruction with the soft palate insufficiency repair procedure

Head & Neck, 2008
AbstractBackground.Measurement of functional outcomes related to different methods of soft palate reconstruction is necessary to determine efficacy of surgical intervention after resection for oropharyngeal cancer.Methods.Speech data were collected across 4 evaluation times for 4 groups of patients (2 groups consisted of patients with ≤ half the soft ...
Jana M, Rieger, Jana G, Zalmanowitz, Shirley Y Y, Li, Judith Lam, Tang, David, Williams, Jeffrey, Harris, Hadi, Seikaly   +6 more
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Concepts of soft-palate prosthesis

Journal of Dentistry, 1973
Abstract Since the initiation of soft-palate prosthesis in the eighteenth century, design has been governed by a number of theories concerning the role of the appliance. Six concepts are presented with the aim of demonstrating the evolution of the prosthesis and dispelling the belief that all the appliances of a bygone age have been based on the ...
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Myoepithelioma of the Soft Palate

Journal of Craniofacial Surgery, 2018
Abstract Myoepitheliomas are extremely rare salivary gland tumors. Myoepithelioma of salivary glands comprised only 1% of all salivary tumors, most commonly occurring in the parotid gland followed by the minor salivary glands in the oral cavity. Involvement of the soft palate is a rare occurrence.
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[Soft palate reconstruction].

Revue de stomatologie, de chirurgie maxillo-faciale et de chirurgie orale, 2014
Soft palate reconstruction is complex. It has to restore swallowing and speech replacing the defect by dynamic and sensitive tissues. The means are multiple from direct suture to free flaps. Local flaps have the advantage to bring a mucosa animated by thin muscles, like in sphincteroplasty.
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Soft actuators for real-world applications

Nature Reviews Materials, 2021
Meng Li, Aniket Pal, Amirreza Aghakhani
exaly  

Soft wearable devices for deep-tissue sensing

Nature Reviews Materials, 2022
Muyang Lin, Hongjie Hu, Sai Zhou
exaly