Transverse facial cleft repair: Preventing pigmentation around the postoperative scar by excising the pigmented white lip at the cleft margin-A retrospective case series of Japanese patients.

Motomu Suito, Ikkei Takashimizu, Fumio Nagai, Yuki Hoshino, Masahiko Noguchi, Shunsuke Yuzuriha

Abstract read

In one paragraph

Article in JPRAS open, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

0numbers the graph read from it

0cells of the map it votes in

0citing papers in PubMed

–field-weighted citation impact

1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

0 citing papers in PubMed.

No citing paper in PubMed yet.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Motomu SuitoDepartment of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Shinshu University School of Medicine, Matsumoto, Nagano 390-8621, Japan.

Ikkei TakashimizuDepartment of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Shinshu University School of Medicine, Matsumoto, Nagano 390-8621, Japan.

Fumio NagaiDepartment of Plastic Surgery, Aizawa Hospital, 2-5-1 Honjou, Matsumoto, Nagano 390-8510, Japan.

Yuki HoshinoDepartment of Plastic Surgery, Nagano Matsushiro General Hospital, 183 Matsushiro, Matsushiro, Nagano 381-1231, Japan.

Masahiko NoguchiDepartment of Plastic Surgery, Nagano Children's Hospital, Azumino, Nagano 399-8288, Japan.

Shunsuke YuzurihaDepartment of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Shinshu University School of Medicine, Matsumoto, Nagano 390-8621, Japan.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Numerous transverse facial cleft repair techniques and designs have been described; however, a complication of surgical reconstruction is scar formation with brown discoloration. This study investigated the histological basis of the darker white lip at the cleft margin, its role in postoperative brown discoloration, and the potential esthetic benefits of extending the excision. In this retrospective analysis, patients with transverse facial cleft were divided into limited and extended excision groups. Histological assessment of melanin pigment was performed using Fontana-Masson staining, and postoperative buccal scars were evaluated from photographs using the Stony Brook Scar Evaluation Scale. The Mann-Whitney

Indexed as

Lateral facial cleftMacrostomiaPigmentationScarTessier number 7 cleftTransverse facial cleft

Identifiers

PMID41799641

DOI10.1016/j.jpra.2026.02.001

PMCPMC12966878

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata

LicenceCC BY

Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.