Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: Perioperative complications in infant cleft repair | Head Face Medicine BioMed Central Research Open Access Perioperative complications in infant cleft repair Thomas Fillies 1 Christoph Homann11 Ulrich Meyer12 Alexander Reich13 Ulrich Joos11 and Richard Werkmeister14 Address Department of Cranio-Maxillofacial Surgery University Munster Waldeyerstr. 30 D-48149 Munster Germany 2Department of Maxillofacial and Facial Plastic Surgery University of Dusseldorf Moorenstrasse 5 40225 Dusseldorf Germany 3Department of Anaesthesiology University Munster Albert-Schweizerstr. 33 48161 Munster Germany and 4Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Central German Armed Forces Hospital Rubenacher Str. 170 56072 Koblenz Germany Email Thomas Fillies - fillies@ Christoph Homann - Christophhomann@ Ulrich Meyer - Alexander Reich - reich@ Ulrich Joos - Richard Werkmeister - Rwerkmeis@ Corresponding author fEqual contributors Published 5 February 2007 Received 2 November 2006 Head Face Medicine 2007 3 9 doi 1746-160X-3-9 Accepted 5 February 2007 This article is available from http content 3 1 9 2007 Fillies et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background Cleft surgery in infants includes special risks due to the kind of the malformation. These risks can be attributed in part to the age and the weight of the patient. Whereas a lot of studies investigated the long-term facial outcome of cleft surgery depending on the age at operation less is known about the complications arising during a cleft surgery in early infancy. Methods We investigated the incidence and severity of perioperative complications in 174 infants undergoing primary
