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Unilateral Cleft Lip Repair: Anatomic Subunit Approximation Technique

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This chapter deals with cleft lip repair according to the Fisher anatomic subunit approximation approach.

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  1. Division of Plastic Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

    Raymond W. Tse

  2. Division of Craniofacial and Plastic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Seattle Children’s Hospital, Seattle, WA, USA

    Raymond W. Tse

  3. Division of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

    David M. Fisher

  4. The Cleft Lip and Palate Program, Division of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada

    David M. Fisher

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  1. Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    Jordan W. Swanson

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Tse, R.W., Fisher, D.M. (2021). Unilateral Cleft Lip Repair: Anatomic Subunit Approximation Technique. In: Swanson, J.W. (eds) Global Cleft Care in Low-Resource Settings. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-59105-2_13

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