Tagliarini, José Vicente [UNESP]Castilho, Emanuel C. [UNESP]Montovani, Jair Cortez [UNESP]2014-05-272014-05-272004-12-01Revista Brasileira de Otorrinolaringologia, v. 70, n. 5, p. 705-709, 2004.0034-7299http://hdl.handle.net/11449/67990The midline cervical cleft is an unusual congenital anomaly of the ventral neck and fewer than 100 cases have been reported overall and the first described by Bailey in 1924. This anomaly is report in association with median cleft of lower lip, cleft mandible and tongue, and hypoplasia of other midline neck structures. Its considered an anomaly originated from the two first branchial arches. The treatment of this cleft is a vertical complete excision and a closure with multiple Z-plasty. Many authors recommend avoid linear closure and prefer multiple Z-plasty for evicted fibrosis and local retraction. In this paper we report 2 case of this anomaly and the literature is reviewed.705-709porAbnormalitiesBranchial regionSurgerybranchial archcase reportcleft lipcleft mandiblefemalefibrosishead and neck malformationhead and neck surgeryhumanhypoplasiainfantjaw malformationmalemidline cervical cleftplastic surgerytissue retractiontongue diseasetongue duplicationZ plastyArtigo10.1590/S0034-72992004000500021S0034-72992004000500021Acesso aberto2-s2.0-123443122982-s2.0-12344312298.pdf6121068386940628