Facial clefts

Description

Any condition caused by failure of the structures of the face to correctly develop during the antenatal period. These conditions are characterised by a partition in bone, soft tissue, or skin of the face.

Index terms

Facial clefts
Craniofacial clefts
Median facial cleft

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Midline facial cleft
Tessier number 0-14 and 30 facial cleft
Median cleft lip or mandible
Central cleft lip
Median cleft lip/mandible
midline cleft lip
Median cleft of the upper lip or maxilla
Midline cervical cleft
Oblique facial cleft
Orbitofacial cleft
Tessier number 4 facial cleft
Tessier number 5 facial cleft
Tessier number 6 facial cleft
Tessier number 7 facial cleft
Lateral facial cleft
Commissural facial cleft
Paramedian facial cleft
Tessier number 1, 2, 12 or 13 facial cleft
Paramedian nasal cleft
Tessier number 1 facial cleft

Excludes

LD25.3 – Frontonasal dysplasia

Exclusions from above levels

http://id.who.int/icd/entity/733825440 – Inborn errors of metabolism

Sibling codes

LA30 – Structural developmental anomalies of teeth and periodontal tissues
LA31 – Structural developmental anomalies of mouth or tongue
LA50 – Congenital velopharyngeal incompetence
LA52 – Facial asymmetry
LA53 – Macrocheilia
LA54 – Microcheilia
LA55 – Compression facies
LA56 – Pierre Robin syndrome
LA5Y – Other specified structural developmental anomalies of the face
LA5Z – Structural developmental anomalies of the face, unspecified

Foundation entity

Facial clefts – http://id.who.int/icd/entity/11389088

Part of: 20: Developmental anomalies