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| Year : 2000 | Volume
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| Issue : 3 | Page : 87-9 |
Bilateral Tessier no. 4 facial cleft with left eye anophthalmos : a case report.
SM Kale, VK Pakhmode
Dept. of Plastic & Maxillofacial Surgery, Govt. Medical College & Hospital, Nagpur
Correspondence Address:
S M Kale
Dept. of Plastic & Maxillofacial Surgery, Govt. Medical College & Hospital, Nagpur
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PMID: 11324202 
Craniofacial clefts are very rare and manifest in a variety of patterns. Tessier classified these clefts in 1973 and numbered them 0 to 14. Tessier No. 4 Facial cleft is a rare variant of craniofacial cleft. Not more than 50 cases are reported in world literature, amongst which only 5 cases are true bilateral in nature. However, combinations of two different variants are not very uncommon. A case of male Indian child aged 4 years with a true bilateral Tessier No. 4 Facial cleft is reported. He also had anophthalmos of the left eye. This is probably the first case in which true bilateral Tessier No. 4 Facial cleft with anophthalmos of one eye is noticed.
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