Halka Joshua, Zhao Xue, Kasten Steven J
*Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, MI†University of Michigan Health System, Ann Arbor, MI.
J Craniofac Surg. 2017 May;28(3):e213-e214. doi: 10.1097/SCS.0000000000003398.
Foreign bodies of the hard palate in infants are rare and are often misdiagnosed as tumors. To our knowledge there are no reports of foreign bodies of the hard palate presenting to plastic surgeons as a cleft palate. This article describes a patient with a foreign body of the hard palate in a 9-month-old boy misdiagnosed as a cleft palate. While similar patients have been reported in the literature of other specialties, no patients have been reported in the plastic surgery literature to our knowledge. It is important for the plastic surgeon to be aware of foreign bodies of the hard palate and to keep these on one's differential in order to deter the use of unnecessary tests and to decrease the risk of any harm.
婴儿硬腭异物较为罕见，常被误诊为肿瘤。据我们所知，尚无硬腭异物以腭裂形式就诊于整形外科医生的报道。本文描述了一名9个月大男孩硬腭异物被误诊为腭裂的病例。虽然其他专业文献中有类似病例报道，但据我们所知，整形外科文献中尚未有此类病例报道。整形外科医生了解硬腭异物并将其纳入鉴别诊断很重要，这样可以避免不必要的检查并降低任何伤害风险。
