Publications by authors named "T Mitsuyasu"
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- This study focuses on the varying maxillo-mandibular occlusal relationships in patients with isolated cleft palate (ICP), highlighting significant differences from other cleft types.
- Researchers categorized craniofacial morphology in a group of 36 girls with ICP using cephalometric measurements and statistical analyses, resulting in three distinct morphological clusters.
- The findings reveal characteristic patterns in patients with ICP, including issues like bimaxillary retrusion and severe mandibular retrusion, which differ from the anterior crossbite typically observed in patients with cleft lip and palate.
Background: Tracheobronchomalacia (TBM) is a severe life-threatening perioperative complication. It is a rare condition caused by congenital and developmental anomalies of the trachea and/or the bronchus. It is often difficult to diagnose TBM before surgery as this congenital disease presents very few symptoms preoperatively and most often appears postoperatively.
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- - The study aimed to determine if endoscopic biliary stenting (EBS) is more effective than endoscopic nasobiliary drainage (ENBD) for treating moderate acute cholangitis caused by choledocholithiasis.
- - An analysis of 99 patients showed no significant differences in improvement metrics between the two methods, though some complications were noted in both groups.
- - The findings suggest that EBS and ENBD have similar efficacy and safety, with EBS potentially being a preferable option for elderly patients.
Ameloblastoma is the most common benign odontogenic tumor in Japan. It is believed that it expands in the jaw bone through peritumoral activation of osteoclasts by receptor activator of nuclear factor kappa-B ligand (RANKL) released from the ameloblastoma, as in bone metastases of cancer cells. However, the clinical features of ameloblastoma, including its growth rate and patterns of invasion, are quite different from those of bone metastasis of cancer cells, suggesting that different underlying mechanisms are involved.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To prevent the occurrence of postoperative long lip, longitudinal postoperative changes in nasolabial forms of patients with unilateral cleft lip who underwent primary lip repair with or without upward advancement of the nasolabial components were compared.
Patients: Forty-three subjects (24 unilateral cleft lip and palate [UCLP] and 19 unilateral cleft lip solely, and cleft lip and alveolus [UCL/UCLA]) who underwent primary lip repair with upward advancement of the nasolabial components (NA group) and 30 subjects (16 UCLP and 14 UCL/UCLA) without upward advancement (LA group) were enrolled.
Outcome Measures: Postoperative photos taken at 1 and 6 months and at 1, 2, and 3 years were used for measuring the heights of the nasal alar base (NBH), the columellar base (CBH), Cupid's peak (CPH), and the upper lip (ULH).