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Objective: It is well known that patients with oral clefts have challenges with feeding. Enteral feeding access, in the form of gastrostomy, is often utilized to supplement or replace oral intake. Although commonly performed, these procedures have reported complication rates as high as 83%.

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Tracheocutaneous Fistula Closure with Turnover Flap and Polydioxanone Plate.

Plast Reconstr Surg Glob Open

October 2017

Department of Plastic Surgery, Beaumont - Farmington Hills Plastic Surgery Fellowship, Farmington Hills, Mich.; Department of Plastic Surgery, Mayo Clinic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Rochester, Minn.; and Department of Plastic Surgery, Beaumont - Royal Oak Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Royal Oak, Mich.

An alternative surgical treatment is proposed for closure of tracheocutaneous fistulas. The authors present a new technique for reconstruction of persistent tracheocutaneous fistula resultant from temporary tracheostomy. The single-stage closure under local anesthesia involves a fistulous tract turnover flap with a perforated 0.

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