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WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO CASES WITH AN EXTENSIVE LOSS OF PALATAL TISSUE

EARL CALVIN PADGETT, M.D.

Arch Surg. 1930;20(3):453-472.

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If one is a young man and somewhat of a surgical optimist, a review of the measures used in operations on cleft palates is apt to temper one's enthusiasm somewhat, and one may entertain a great many doubts as to the probability of surgical intervention ever attaining its ultimate goal—the ideal functional result—so far as the cleft palate is concerned. In the past many of the great minds in surgery, as a glance at the names which represent the real milestones of progress will reveal, have wrestled ardently with the problem of cleft palate.

In 1764, Le Monnier,¹ a French dentist, reported the first successful repair of a cleft velum. Later, his success was followed by von Graefe² of Germany in 1817, Roux³ of France in 1819 and Warren⁴ of America in 1820. But it remained for Dieffenbach to report the first successful closure of . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
KANSAS CITY, MO.

From the Surgical Department of the University of Kansas School of Medicine.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication, Sept. 7, 1929.

Read before the Section on Surgery, at the Eightieth Annual Session of the American Medical Association, Portland, Ore., July 10, 1929.

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