Reconstruction of a traumatically transected Stensen's duct using facial vein graft

Traumatic injuries to the lower third of the face can result in damage to various vital structures. We report a case of traumatically avulsed Stenson's duct and facial vein wherein the vein was used as a free graft to lengthen the duct. The paper highlights the need on how best to utilise the l...

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Autores principales: Awana, Meenakshi, Arora, Srimathy S., Arora, Sunil, Hansraj, Varun
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2015
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Case Report - Trauma
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4555959/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26389044
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2231-0746.161095
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author Awana, Meenakshi
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description Traumatic injuries to the lower third of the face can result in damage to various vital structures. We report a case of traumatically avulsed Stenson's duct and facial vein wherein the vein was used as a free graft to lengthen the duct. The paper highlights the need on how best to utilise the locally available and viable tissues as free grafts.
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spelling pubmed-45559592015-09-18 Reconstruction of a traumatically transected Stensen's duct using facial vein graft Awana, Meenakshi Arora, Srimathy S. Arora, Sunil Hansraj, Varun Ann Maxillofac Surg Case Report - Trauma Traumatic injuries to the lower third of the face can result in damage to various vital structures. We report a case of traumatically avulsed Stenson's duct and facial vein wherein the vein was used as a free graft to lengthen the duct. The paper highlights the need on how best to utilise the locally available and viable tissues as free grafts. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2015 /pmc/articles/PMC4555959/ /pubmed/26389044 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2231-0746.161095 Text en Copyright: © 2015 Annals of Maxillofacial Surgery http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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title_short Reconstruction of a traumatically transected Stensen's duct using facial vein graft
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4555959/
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