SUMMARY In the era of free-flap transfer, the pectoralis major musculocutaneous flap still plays a unique role in head and neck reconstruction. We report on a patient with a recurrent hypopharyngeal carcinoma after total pharyngolaryngectomy and adjuvant chemoradiotherapy in whom defects included a circumferential defect of the oropharynx and the entire tongue. The defects were successfully rec...

METHODS: 60 patients who had non-melanocytic skin cancer on the only nasal tip were included in this study. There was no previous history of nasal surgery, allergic rhinitis, concha hypertrophy and other breathing problems in any patients. Six patients were treated with forehead flap, ten patients nasolabial island flap, twenty patients bilobe flap that based on inferior, 24 patients bilobe fla...

Department of Plastic Surgery, Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India Address for correspondence: V. Bhattacharya, B-33/14-16, Gandhi Nagar, Naria, Varanasi 221005, Uttar Pradesh, India. E-mail: [email protected] Defects following excision of lesions in and around the oral commissure extending on either lip are not infrequent. A majority of them are mal...

The authors assessed the long term clinical and functional results following local flap coverage (medial plantar flap, peroneal reverse flow island flap, posterior tibial reverse flow flap) in 11 patients who developed wound complications after open repair of a ruptured Achilles tendon. At the latest follow-up, seven patients had achieved a good result, having returned to their pre-injury activ...

METHODS: 60 patients who had non-melanocytic skin cancer on the only nasal tip were included in this study. There was no previous history of nasal surgery, allergic rhinitis, concha hypertrophy and other breathing problems in any patients. Six patients were treated with forehead flap, ten patients nasolabial island flap, twenty patients bilobe flap that based on inferior, 24 patients bilobe fla...

The reconstruction of defects in the oral cavity after a large resection of intraoral cancer is relatively difficult because of its specific anatomical char acter and the exposure to infection from the oral bacterial flora. A forehead flap, or a deltopectoral flap, and a recently developped free flap with microvascular anastmosis has been the chosen method for the recon struction of defects in ...

PURPOSE To develop a rabbit experimental study to test the hypothesis that surgical repair of hypospadias with severe ventral curvatures might be completed in one stage, if a graft, such as buccal mucosa, could be placed over the tunica vaginalis flap used in corporoplasty for ventral lengthening, with the addition of an onlay preputial island. flap to complete the urethroplasty. MATERIALS AN...

BACKGROUND The thin and pliable skin of the neck is a region with multidirectional activity, and postburn scar contractures tend to form there easily. The supraclavicular flap is used to correct neck scar contractures. Its main vascular supply is the supraclavicular artery, and it can be harvested as either a skin pedicle flap or an island flap (vascular pedicle flap). OBJECTIVE In this artic...

Severe upper extremity injuries are considered a potential source of significant disability. Appropriate soft tissue restoration is an essential component of any treatment protocol and often requires a vascularized flap to protect the neurovascular and musculo-tendinous structures. The use of latissimus dorsi muscle or myocutaneous flap is considered in ideal solution in such conditions as it p...