Clinical reliability of radial forearm free flap in repair of buccal defects

BACKGROUND: The ideal method for buccal defects should provide good outcome of both function and appearance; our goal is to highlight the reliability of radial forearm flap in buccal reconstruction. METHODS: A retrospective study was conducted. From 2005 to 2012, 20 radial forearm flaps were used to...

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Autores principales: Fang, Qi-Gen, Li, Zhen-Ning, Zhang, Xu, Liu, Fa-Yu, Xu, Zhong-Fei, Sun, Chang-Fu
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3598887/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23363472
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-11-26
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Sumario:BACKGROUND: The ideal method for buccal defects should provide good outcome of both function and appearance; our goal is to highlight the reliability of radial forearm flap in buccal reconstruction. METHODS: A retrospective study was conducted. From 2005 to 2012, 20 radial forearm flaps were used to repair the defects. We analyzed the superiority and reliability of the flap; in addition, we reviewed some related literature and made a comparison between radial forearm flap and platysma flap. RESULTS: All radial forearm flaps totally survived, but two flaps suffered venous obstruction, hematoma, respectively. Radial forearm flap preserved the original interincisal distance well. In our follow-up, all patients had sufficient mouth-opening width (mean: 4.3 cm). CONCLUSION: Radial forearm flap is a reliable method for buccal defect reconstruction.

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