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11601572

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
4
pubmed:dateCreated
2001-10-16
pubmed:abstractText
The purpose of this study was to review the authors' 13-year experience with free tissue transfer for head and neck oncology patients. This study was a retrospective review of 728 free flaps performed in 698 patients. Recipient sites were subdivided by region into the mandible (N = 253), mid face/orbit (N = 190), hypopharynx (N = 134), oral cavity (N = 104), skull base (N = 36), and scalp (N = 11). The overall free flap success rate was 98.6%. Seventy-nine flaps (10.9%) were reexplored for vascular compromise. Ten flaps (1.4%) were lost in their entirety. The overall complication rate was 17.5%. Four donor sites (forearm, fibula, rectus, and jejunum) were used for 92% of the patients. The results of the study confirm the efficacy of free tissue transfer in the reconstruction of oncological head and neck defects. In this series the free forearm, fibula, rectus, and jejunum flaps have become the workhorse donor sites for the vast majority of defects.
pubmed:commentsCorrections
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Oct
pubmed:issn
0148-7043
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
47
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
385-9
pubmed:dateRevised
2004-12-27
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2001
pubmed:articleTitle
Simplifying microvascular head and neck reconstruction: a rational approach to donor site selection.
pubmed:affiliation
Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10021, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article