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The anterolateral thigh flap for soft tissue reconstruction in patients with tongue squamous cell carcinoma

BACKGROUND: Surgery remains the first choice of treatment for tongue cancer. Immediate reconstruction should be performed after wide resection of tumour. The aim of this study was to evaluate the anterolateral thigh flap for reconstruction of lingual defects. METHODS: We report 39 consecutive oral t...

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Autores principales: Tong, Xiang-Juan, Tang, Zhan-Gui, Shan, Zhen-Feng, Guo, Xin-Cheng
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4982402/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27514796
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12957-016-0972-8
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author Tong, Xiang-Juan
Tang, Zhan-Gui
Shan, Zhen-Feng
Guo, Xin-Cheng
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Shan, Zhen-Feng
Guo, Xin-Cheng
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description BACKGROUND: Surgery remains the first choice of treatment for tongue cancer. Immediate reconstruction should be performed after wide resection of tumour. The aim of this study was to evaluate the anterolateral thigh flap for reconstruction of lingual defects. METHODS: We report 39 consecutive oral tongue squamous cell carcinoma patients who underwent lingual reconstruction with the anterolateral thigh flap between 2009 and 2010. RESULTS: The width of the skin island was 4 to 5 cm and the length of the skin island was 6 to 8 cm in 31 patients with T2 tumour, while the width of the skin island was 5.5 to 6 cm and the length of the skin island was 9 to 12 cm in 8 patients with T3/4 tumours. The all flap survival rate was 97.5 % in our series. CONCLUSIONS: We could obtain sufficient flap volume using the anterolateral thigh flap for tongue reconstruction. The single perforator-based anterolateral thigh flap is a good option for soft tissue reconstruction in patients with oral tongue squamous cell carcinoma.
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spelling pubmed-49824022016-08-13 The anterolateral thigh flap for soft tissue reconstruction in patients with tongue squamous cell carcinoma Tong, Xiang-Juan Tang, Zhan-Gui Shan, Zhen-Feng Guo, Xin-Cheng World J Surg Oncol Research BACKGROUND: Surgery remains the first choice of treatment for tongue cancer. Immediate reconstruction should be performed after wide resection of tumour. The aim of this study was to evaluate the anterolateral thigh flap for reconstruction of lingual defects. METHODS: We report 39 consecutive oral tongue squamous cell carcinoma patients who underwent lingual reconstruction with the anterolateral thigh flap between 2009 and 2010. RESULTS: The width of the skin island was 4 to 5 cm and the length of the skin island was 6 to 8 cm in 31 patients with T2 tumour, while the width of the skin island was 5.5 to 6 cm and the length of the skin island was 9 to 12 cm in 8 patients with T3/4 tumours. The all flap survival rate was 97.5 % in our series. CONCLUSIONS: We could obtain sufficient flap volume using the anterolateral thigh flap for tongue reconstruction. The single perforator-based anterolateral thigh flap is a good option for soft tissue reconstruction in patients with oral tongue squamous cell carcinoma. BioMed Central 2016-08-12 /pmc/articles/PMC4982402/ /pubmed/27514796 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12957-016-0972-8 Text en © The Author(s). 2016 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Tong, Xiang-Juan
Tang, Zhan-Gui
Shan, Zhen-Feng
Guo, Xin-Cheng
The anterolateral thigh flap for soft tissue reconstruction in patients with tongue squamous cell carcinoma
title The anterolateral thigh flap for soft tissue reconstruction in patients with tongue squamous cell carcinoma
title_full The anterolateral thigh flap for soft tissue reconstruction in patients with tongue squamous cell carcinoma
title_fullStr The anterolateral thigh flap for soft tissue reconstruction in patients with tongue squamous cell carcinoma
title_full_unstemmed The anterolateral thigh flap for soft tissue reconstruction in patients with tongue squamous cell carcinoma
title_short The anterolateral thigh flap for soft tissue reconstruction in patients with tongue squamous cell carcinoma
title_sort anterolateral thigh flap for soft tissue reconstruction in patients with tongue squamous cell carcinoma
topic Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4982402/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27514796
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12957-016-0972-8
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