Abstract
Cleft lip and palate is one of the common congenital malformations of head and neck region. Cleft lip and palate anomaly may be component of other syndromes like ectrodactily - ectodermal dysplasia (EEC) syndrome and cleft palate - cardiac defect - genital anomalies - ectrodactily acrocardiofacial (CCGE) syndrome. The diagnosis of accompanying malformations to cleft lip/palate and also syndrome complexes are increased in recent years. Difficult intubation is a desirable complication in maxillo-facial defects. For risk stratification of difficult intubation some tests are defined. Mallampati, Wilson, Cormack and Lehane tests can be used for this purpose. Our aim in this study was to discuss the difficult intubation risk and our experience of 10 years old, 30 kg of body weight girl with cleft lip and palate.
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