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The Rare Facial Cleft

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Rare facial cleft has a broad spectrum of clinical presentation as soft tissue and bony structures can be malformed, clefting or absent. The face is a complete three-dimensional structure, composed by regions with different topography, skin thickness, texture, and color. In patients with rare facial cleft, hair follicles may accompany the cleft, especially those above the orbit or that are completely absent causing alopecia, absence of eyebrow and eyelash.

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The authors thank the plastic surgeon and artist Jorge Vitale for the drawings given to Prof. Dr. Cassio Raposo do Amaral.

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  1. Institute of Plastic and Craniofacial Surgery, SOBRAPAR Hospital, Campinas, São Paulo, 13084-880, Brazil

    Cassio Eduardo Raposo-Amaral M.D., Ph.D.

  2. Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

    Cassio Eduardo Raposo-Amaral M.D., Ph.D.

  3. Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Department of Pediatrics David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA

    Reza Jarrahy M.D. & Rizal Lim M.D.

  4. Divisao de Cirurgia Plastica e Queimaduras, Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

    Nivaldo Alonso M.D., Ph.D.

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Raposo-Amaral, C.E., Jarrahy, R., Lim, R., Alonso, N. (2018). The Rare Facial Cleft. In: Alonso, N., Raposo-Amaral, C. (eds) Cleft Lip and Palate Treatment. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63290-2_21

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