[Nasal endoscopic-assisted surgery for adults cleft palate repair].

OBJECTIVE

To evaluate the efficacy of nasal endoscopic-assisted surgery for adults cleft palate repair.

METHOD: We designed and made two suitable nasal mucoperiosteal flaps in nasal cavities, then released the nasal mucoperiosteal flaps to the level of hard palate and sewed up two flaps on the midline of oral cavity to repair the nasal side of cleft palate.

RESULT: Nine of 11 patients were healed after three months following-up. The bilateral palatal mucoperiosteal flap were separated in the front of hard palate in 2 patients, however they were not perforated due to well-healing of nasal mucoperiosteal flaps and second stage surgery was not necessary.

CONCLUSION

The cleft palate could be repaired using the tensionless nasal mucoperiosteal flap with good blood supply, and'procedures could be carried out under nasal endoscopy. Endoscopic-assisted surgery for cleft palate repair was simple to perform, and its effect was satisfactory.