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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
1999-9-2
pubmed:abstractText
A number of techniques have been introduced to support the orbital floor after maxillectomy without orbital exenteration. These methods include skin graft or muscular sling, but they have resulted in severe complications, such as enophthalmos, global ptosis, diplopia, and facial deformity. Currently, advanced microvascular reconstruction using bone and soft tissue is performed by many surgeons. This usually results in the filling of the postmaxillectomy defect, but the lack of support for the orbital rim and floor by the bone flap may still cause the complications mentioned above. Vascularized calvarial bone flap was chosen in this study for reconstruction of the orbital floor and infraorbital rim to function as a buttress, to reconstruct recipient sites of poor vascular bed after radiation therapy, and to withstand further postoperative radiation. By providing a solid floor and rim, these complications can be prevented with satisfactory function and aesthetically acceptable results. From September of 1995 to July of 1998, we performed vascularized bone flap for the reconstruction of the orbital floor and infraorbital rim in four cases after total maxillectomy involving the orbital floor. With a follow-up period from 19 to 35 months (mean, 27 months), we obtained significant improvement of functional and aesthetically acceptable results without global ptosis, enophthalmos, diplopia, or severe facial contour deformity.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
AIM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Sep
pubmed:issn
0032-1052
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
104
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
646-53
pubmed:dateRevised
2011-2-16
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1999
pubmed:articleTitle
Orbital floor and infraorbital rim reconstruction after total maxillectomy using a vascularized calvarial bone flap.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Yonsei University, Wonju College of Medicine, Korea. hblee@rics.bwh.harvard.edu
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article