Since birth, a 7-year-old girl has had an unusual face compared to other children. I have eyes that are far apart, an alar bone aplasia, and a cleft palate. At school age, she just wanted to be alone because of her strange face.
Hue Central Hospital said it has just cooperated with Professor. McKay McKinnon – a leading expert in plastic surgery from the University of Chicago Medicine, USA, successfully operated on a rare case of congenital malformations of the distal eye socket and alar aplasia.
According to experts, congenital defects of the distal eye socket and aplasia of the nasal alar bone are rare defects in children. According to medical literature around the world, the incidence of the disease is very low, accounting for < 0.1%, and currently there are only reports of individual cases, without a certain statistical rate.
Treatment for this birth defect requires an experienced surgeon to bring the child’s eyes together and reconstruct the alar bone.
Previously, on September 19, Hue Central Hospital received child patient Le Lam P., (7 years old, in District 12, Ho Chi Minh City). The patient’s family said that when born, the patient had malformations of both distal eyes, aplastic alar nasal bone, and cleft palate.
The child has had his cleft palate stitched since he was 7 months old. The young parents, eager to cure their child’s distant vision, took the child to many hospitals in Ho Chi Minh City, but unfortunately the hospitals still could not do anything for him. Seeing him go to school with a deformed face, his parents were always sad and continued to look for a place to treat him.
Upon arriving at Hue Central Hospital, the patient had all the tests and consultation with Professor McKay McKinnon from the University of Chicago Medicine, USA. Professor Mc Kinnon is a leading expert in plastic surgery, and has worked at Hue Central Hospital many times, helping with difficult and complex surgeries.
On October 26, along with the team of doctors at Hue Central Hospital, Professor McKay McKinnon performed surgery on the child. The surgery lasted 8 hours, with many different teams of surgeons: a team of neurologists, ENT doctors and maxillofacial doctors, and a team of neurologists conducting skull drilling and musculoskeletal surgery. Duong exposes the zygomatic arch, enters the eye socket, separates the medial rectus fascia, pulley fascia, and exposes the nasal wings on both sides with bone defects.
Next, the doctors cut the cheekbones and orbits on both sides and cut the orbital ceiling. Cut the medial orbital border bones on both sides and move the orbital bone mass medially. After that, a team of ENT and Maxillofacial specialists created the alar bone for the child’s nose.
After 8 hours of hard work, P.’s face was successfully reconstructed and became more beautiful. From a child with an abnormal, deformed face without alar bones, his face has now returned to quite normal and in the next direction, Hue Central Hospital will continue to reconstruct the alar bones for him. children, so they can have a more normal and beautiful face.
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