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In this retrospective observational study, we compared antenatal and postnatal diagnosis of 233 patients followed in our unit. We classified our patients according to the Kernahan and Stark\u2019s classification system: Group 1: facial cleft including labial and labio-maxillary clefts; Group 2: facial cleft including total, subtotal and submucous palatal clefts; Group 3: labio-maxillary-palatal clefts. Out of 233 patients, 104 were antenatally diagnosed with a facial cleft, i.e., an overall detection rate of 44.6%. The diagnosis was confirmed at birth in 65 of these patients, i.e., an overall accuracy of 62.5%. Of the 67 children (29.2%) in Group 1, the screening detection rate was 58.2% with an antenatal diagnostic accuracy of 48.7%. Of the 97 children (41.6%) in Group 2, the screening detection rate was 2% with an antenatal diagnostic accuracy of 50%. Of the 69 children (29.6%) in Group 3, the screening detection rate was 91.3% with an antenatal diagnostic accuracy of 71.4%. Our study demonstrates a relatively poor diagnostic accuracy in prenatal ultrasound, where the diagnosis was inaccurate in one third to one half of patients. It showed great variability in the screening detection rate depending on the diagnostic group observed, as well as a low rate of detection of palatal clefts.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/diagnostics13152479","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,7,27]],"date-time":"2023-07-27T01:50:37Z","timestamp":1690422637000},"page":"2479","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":14,"title":["Cleft Lip and Palate Antenatal Diagnosis: A Swiss University Center Performance Analysis"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"13","author":[{"given":"Yohan","family":"Guichoud","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Service de Chirurgie de l\u2019Enfant et de l\u2019Adolescent, D\u00e9partement Femme M\u00e8re Enfant, Lausanne University Hospital, 1011 Lausanne, Switzerland"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Oumama","family":"El Ezzi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Service de Chirurgie de l\u2019Enfant et de l\u2019Adolescent, D\u00e9partement Femme M\u00e8re Enfant, Lausanne University Hospital, 1011 Lausanne, Switzerland"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-2174-4549","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Anthony","family":"de Buys Roessingh","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Service de Chirurgie de l\u2019Enfant et de l\u2019Adolescent, D\u00e9partement Femme M\u00e8re Enfant, Lausanne University Hospital, 1011 Lausanne, Switzerland"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,7,26]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"110","DOI":"10.1016\/j.jormas.2021.05.008","article-title":"Global prevalence of cleft palate, cleft lip and cleft palate and lip: A comprehensive systematic review and meta-analysis","volume":"123","author":"Salari","year":"2022","journal-title":"J. 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