Palatoplastia com retalho bilateral da mucosa jugal para correção de fenda palatina secundária adquirida em cão - Relato de caso

Abstract

This report describes the activities carried out in the period from June 28 to September 13, 2022, referring to the course conclusion discipline, to obtain a Bachelor's degree in Veterinary Medicine from the Federal Rural University of Pernambuco (UFRPE), with a workload total of 420 hours. The Mandatory Supervised Internship (ESO) was initially carried out at the Veterinary Hospital of the Department of Veterinary Medicine at UFRPE and then at Animalis - Surgery and Veterinary Clinic, both in Recife, State of Pernambuco. The activities monitored in the institutions were developed in the Small Animal Veterinary Surgical Clinic sector. Among the cases monitored and reported in the second chapter, a palatoplasty with bilateral flap of the cheek mucosa was performed at UFRPE to correct anomalous communication acquired after tumor remission in the soft palate of an adult female patient with complications. breathing resulting from this. Surgical intervention was chosen as the treatment of choice, where the use of the technique of reconstruction and reduction of the cleft palate with a bipedicled flap proved to be efficient in the regression of signs and symptoms and satisfactory improvement of the patient's clinical condition.