| Autor: |
Armín Jesús López-Batista, María de los Ángeles Jaramillo-López, Kirenia Ventura-Nieves |
| Jazyk: |
Spanish; Castilian |
| Rok vydání: |
2022 |
| Předmět: |
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| Zdroj: |
Revista Información Científica, Vol 101, Iss 2, Pp e3836-e3836 (2022) |
| Druh dokumentu: |
article |
| ISSN: |
1028-9933 |
| Popis: |
An eight-years-old black male patient was attended in the Maxillofacial Surgery Service consultation at the Americo Boavida Hospital in Luanda, Angola, in march 2018. Relatives reported a huge facial deformity with characteristic variable (slow growth) and evolve with time. Also they referred presence of difficulty in breathing through the nostrils, associated with this anomaly. A presumptive diagnosis of monostotic facial fibrous dysplasia of the right maxillary segment was made. He underwent surgery under endotracheal anesthesia, after undergoing tests for the evaluation of the range of mouth opening, where the upper and lower incisors were taken as references: classification obtained in test was Class II (2.6-3 cm) and the Mallampati scale was Grade IV. The intubation procedures difficulties were overcome. Three-dimensional excision with Weber-Ferguson approach and reconstructive plastic surgery was performed. |
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