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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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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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author | Fang, Qi-Gen Li, Zhen-Ning Zhang, Xu Liu, Fa-Yu Xu, Zhong-Fei Sun, Chang-Fu |
author_facet | Fang, Qi-Gen Li, Zhen-Ning Zhang, Xu Liu, Fa-Yu Xu, Zhong-Fei Sun, Chang-Fu |
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description | 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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spelling | pubmed-35988872013-03-17 Clinical reliability of radial forearm free flap in repair of buccal defects Fang, Qi-Gen Li, Zhen-Ning Zhang, Xu Liu, Fa-Yu Xu, Zhong-Fei Sun, Chang-Fu World J Surg Oncol Research 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. BioMed Central 2013-01-30 /pmc/articles/PMC3598887/ /pubmed/23363472 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-11-26 Text en Copyright ©2013 Fang et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Fang, Qi-Gen Li, Zhen-Ning Zhang, Xu Liu, Fa-Yu Xu, Zhong-Fei Sun, Chang-Fu Clinical reliability of radial forearm free flap in repair of buccal defects |
title | Clinical reliability of radial forearm free flap in repair of buccal defects |
title_full | Clinical reliability of radial forearm free flap in repair of buccal defects |
title_fullStr | Clinical reliability of radial forearm free flap in repair of buccal defects |
title_full_unstemmed | Clinical reliability of radial forearm free flap in repair of buccal defects |
title_short | Clinical reliability of radial forearm free flap in repair of buccal defects |
title_sort | clinical reliability of radial forearm free flap in repair of buccal defects |
topic | Research |
url | 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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