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Modified Incision Design for Submental Flap: An Excellent Design Method for the Reconstruction of a Defect after Head and Neck Tumor Resection
BACKGROUND: The usage of submental flap is a good method for head and neck reconstruction, but it has some risk also, such as anatomical variations and surgical errors. In this article, we present a modified incision design for the submental flap. METHODS: We designed a modified submental flap incis...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3770673/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24040181 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0074110 |
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author | Liu, Fa-yu Li, Rui-wu Safdar, Jawad Li, Zhen-ning Guo, Nan Xu, Zhong-fei Ge, Shu-fen Li, Jun-lin Huang, Shao-hui Tan, Xue-xin Sun, Chang-fu |
author_facet | Liu, Fa-yu Li, Rui-wu Safdar, Jawad Li, Zhen-ning Guo, Nan Xu, Zhong-fei Ge, Shu-fen Li, Jun-lin Huang, Shao-hui Tan, Xue-xin Sun, Chang-fu |
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description | BACKGROUND: The usage of submental flap is a good method for head and neck reconstruction, but it has some risk also, such as anatomical variations and surgical errors. In this article, we present a modified incision design for the submental flap. METHODS: We designed a modified submental flap incision method based on the overlap of the incision outline of the submental flap, platysma myocutaneous flap and infrahyoid myocutaneous flap. If we found that the submental flap was unreliable during the neck dissection at the level III, II and Ib areas, the infrahyoid myocutaneous flap or platysma myocutaneous flap was used to replace it. Between 2004 and 2012, we performed 30 cases using this method. As control, 33 radial forearm free flaps were counted. Significant differences were evaluated using the χ(2) test and Mann-Whitney U. Survival and recurrence were analyzed using the Kaplan-Meier method. RESULTS: Of the 30 patients, 27 finally received a submental flap, 1 patient received an infrahyoid myocutaneous flap, and 2 patients received a platysma myocutaneous flap. In patients who received the submental flap, the average operation time was 5.9 hours, 2.4 hours shorter than the radial forearm free flap group; the average age was 61.8, 6.1 years older than the radial forearm free flap group; the survival time and recurrence time did not significantly differ with those of the forearm free flap group; and the success rate was higher than traditional methods. CONCLUSIONS: The wider indications, less required time, the similar low risk of recurrence and death as radial forearm free flap, higher success rate than traditional submental flap harvest methods, and ability to safely harvest a submental flap make the modified incision design a reliable method. |
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spelling | pubmed-37706732013-09-13 Modified Incision Design for Submental Flap: An Excellent Design Method for the Reconstruction of a Defect after Head and Neck Tumor Resection Liu, Fa-yu Li, Rui-wu Safdar, Jawad Li, Zhen-ning Guo, Nan Xu, Zhong-fei Ge, Shu-fen Li, Jun-lin Huang, Shao-hui Tan, Xue-xin Sun, Chang-fu PLoS One Research Article BACKGROUND: The usage of submental flap is a good method for head and neck reconstruction, but it has some risk also, such as anatomical variations and surgical errors. In this article, we present a modified incision design for the submental flap. METHODS: We designed a modified submental flap incision method based on the overlap of the incision outline of the submental flap, platysma myocutaneous flap and infrahyoid myocutaneous flap. If we found that the submental flap was unreliable during the neck dissection at the level III, II and Ib areas, the infrahyoid myocutaneous flap or platysma myocutaneous flap was used to replace it. Between 2004 and 2012, we performed 30 cases using this method. As control, 33 radial forearm free flaps were counted. Significant differences were evaluated using the χ(2) test and Mann-Whitney U. Survival and recurrence were analyzed using the Kaplan-Meier method. RESULTS: Of the 30 patients, 27 finally received a submental flap, 1 patient received an infrahyoid myocutaneous flap, and 2 patients received a platysma myocutaneous flap. In patients who received the submental flap, the average operation time was 5.9 hours, 2.4 hours shorter than the radial forearm free flap group; the average age was 61.8, 6.1 years older than the radial forearm free flap group; the survival time and recurrence time did not significantly differ with those of the forearm free flap group; and the success rate was higher than traditional methods. CONCLUSIONS: The wider indications, less required time, the similar low risk of recurrence and death as radial forearm free flap, higher success rate than traditional submental flap harvest methods, and ability to safely harvest a submental flap make the modified incision design a reliable method. Public Library of Science 2013-09-11 /pmc/articles/PMC3770673/ /pubmed/24040181 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0074110 Text en © 2013 Liu et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Liu, Fa-yu Li, Rui-wu Safdar, Jawad Li, Zhen-ning Guo, Nan Xu, Zhong-fei Ge, Shu-fen Li, Jun-lin Huang, Shao-hui Tan, Xue-xin Sun, Chang-fu Modified Incision Design for Submental Flap: An Excellent Design Method for the Reconstruction of a Defect after Head and Neck Tumor Resection |
title | Modified Incision Design for Submental Flap: An Excellent Design Method for the Reconstruction of a Defect after Head and Neck Tumor Resection |
title_full | Modified Incision Design for Submental Flap: An Excellent Design Method for the Reconstruction of a Defect after Head and Neck Tumor Resection |
title_fullStr | Modified Incision Design for Submental Flap: An Excellent Design Method for the Reconstruction of a Defect after Head and Neck Tumor Resection |
title_full_unstemmed | Modified Incision Design for Submental Flap: An Excellent Design Method for the Reconstruction of a Defect after Head and Neck Tumor Resection |
title_short | Modified Incision Design for Submental Flap: An Excellent Design Method for the Reconstruction of a Defect after Head and Neck Tumor Resection |
title_sort | modified incision design for submental flap: an excellent design method for the reconstruction of a defect after head and neck tumor resection |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3770673/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24040181 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0074110 |
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