ABSTRACT
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. Exploratory surgery during palatoplasty showed a fatty hamartoma in the half of the palate in which no electric potentials had been registered.
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Angiolipoma/diagnosis , Cleft Palate/physiopathology , Electromyography , Orofaciodigital Syndromes/physiopathology , Palatal Muscles/physiopathology , Palatal Neoplasms/diagnosis , Palate, Soft/physiopathology , Preoperative Care/methods , Tongue/abnormalities , Action Potentials , Angiolipoma/genetics , Angiolipoma/surgery , Cleft Palate/genetics , Cleft Palate/surgery , Clubfoot/genetics , Female , Heart Septal Defects, Atrial/genetics , Humans , Hypopharyngeal Neoplasms/genetics , Infant , Orofaciodigital Syndromes/surgery , Palatal Muscles/innervation , Palatal Neoplasms/genetics , Palatal Neoplasms/surgery , Syndactyly/genetics , Toes/abnormalities , Tongue Neoplasms/geneticsABSTRACT
Three groups of nine patients each were analyzed. The first two groups consisted of those that underwent tympanoplastic due to chronic inflammation of middle ear. Two different standard auditory canal skin incisions were applied, i.e. tympanomeatal flap (TMF) or vascular strip (VS). The third control group consisted of non-operated patients. All the operated patients were subjected to a quantitative analysis of the auditory canal revascularization by means of the Weibel stereological test method, i.e. the B 100 double network system. The density of capillaries, arterioles, venulolymphatic spaces and a total volume density of all vascular elements of the auditory canal skin were measured. The obtained results of vascularization were compared with those of the target control group. It was found out that there were no significant differences in vascularization of auditory canal skin between TMF and VS patients from one side and the control group on the other side.
