"Long term speech outcomes after using the Sommerlad technique for primary palatoplasty: a retrospective study in the Wilhelmina Children's Hospital, Utrecht.".

Objectives: After cleft lip and/or palate (CL/P) repair, children may develop velopharyngeal insufficiency (VPI) leading to speech imperfections, necessitating additional speech correcting surgery. This study examines the incidence of VPI and speech correcting surgery after Sommerlad's palatoplasty for CL/P, and its association with various clinical features.

Materials And Methods: A retrospective cohort study was performed in the Wilhelmina Children's Hospital in Utrecht and child records from 380 individuals with CL/P registered from 2008 to 2017 were retrospectively reviewed.

Speech correcting surgery after primary palatoplasty: a systematic literature review and meta-analysis.

Objectives: In cleft palate patients, the soft palate is commonly closed using straight-line palatoplasty, Z-palatoplasty, or palatoplasty with buccal flaps. Currently, it is unknown which surgical technique is superior regarding speech outcomes. The aim of this review is to study the incidence of speech correcting surgery (SCS) per soft palatoplasty technique and to identify variables which are associated with this outcome.

Computer-Assisted Surgical Anatomical Mapping of the Antebrachial Cutaneous Nerves: An Anatomical Study with a Proposition for Alternative, Cutaneous Nerve-Sparing Anterior Elbow Incisions.

Unlabelled: It is common practice to assess the distance from nerves to anatomical structures in centimeters, but patients have various body compositions and anatomical variations are common. The purpose of this study was therefore to assess the relative distance from cutaneous nerves around the elbow to surrounding anatomical landmarks by providing a stacked image that displays the average position of cutaneous nerves around the elbow. The aim was to research possibilities for adjusting common skin incisions in the anterior elbow so that cutaneous nerve injury may be avoided.

Biliopancreatic and biliary leak after pancreatoduodenectomy treated by percutaneous transhepatic biliary drainage.

Background: Complementary to percutaneous intra-abdominal drainage, percutaneous transhepatic biliary drainage (PTBD) might ameliorate healing of pancreatic fistula and biliary leakage after pancreatoduodenectomy by diversion of bile from the site of leakage. This study evaluated technical and clinical outcomes of PTBD for this indication.

Methods: All patients undergoing PTBD for leakage after pancreatoduodenectomy were retrospectively evaluated in two tertiary pancreatic centers (2014-2019).