Combined anomalies of the palate in Mohr syndrome: is preoperative electromyography of the palate useful?

The authors present a girl with typical characteristics of oral-facial-digital syndrome type II (Mohr syndrome) with a cleft soft palate and pendulous tongue nodules. Because of feeding difficulties, electromyography was performed of both morphologically identical halves of the soft palate. One half showed a normal muscle action potential and in the other half electrical silence was registered.

Polymethyl-methacrylate implants in forehead and supraorbital arches reconstruction: retrospective study.

Frontobasal injuries and some other diseases of frontal sinuses sometimes require radical surgery with the obliteration of the sinus. A cosmetic correction of the forehead and supraorbital arches has to be performed after such a procedure. Nowadays, there is a wide choice of alloplastic materials on the market.

[Percutaneous tracheostomy].

In the last few years numerous reports from intensive care units confirm that a nonsurgical percutaneous tracheostomy has successfully replaced elective conventional (surgical) tracheostomy. The majority of authors point out the advantages over surgical technique such as: the speed of procedure, the possibility of doing it at bedside thus excluding transport and the need for operating theatre, less infections around stoma, minor cosmetic defects and finally, more economical price. The article describes three, according to pertinent literature most often utilized techniques, i.

The role of electromyography in the diagnosis of velopharyngeal insufficiency: our experiences.

The subject of this study is the electromyographic investigation of the velopharyngeal sphincter structures. Seventy-five patients underwent examination, both patients with symptoms of velopharyngeal insufficiency and patients who were thought to have latent pathological sphincter changes based on local findings. A control group of 10 healthy examinees was also investigated.

[Secondary rhinoplasty (analysis of failures over a 5-year period)].

It is well known that secondary or revised rhinoplasty is big problem in plastic surgery. During the five year period (1987-1991) 273 rhinoplastic surgeries were done at the ORL-clinic in Rijeka, out of which 42 have been submitted to revision (15.2%).