Combined radial forearm and pharyngeal flaps for soft palate reconstruction
β Scribed by John Townend
- Book ID
- 117436242
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 428 KB
- Volume
- 36
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0266-4356
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## Background: Speech and swallowing problems due to velopharyngeal incompetence may follow soft palate resection and reconstruction. over the past 3 years, we have developed the use of a superiorly based pharyngeal flap in conjunction with a radial forearm flap for soft palate reconstruction. ##
We present six patients with maxillary and palate defects that were reconstructed with the radial forearm flap. Four patients had malignant neoplasms involving the maxilla, three with squamous cell carcinoma and the fourth with recurrent basal cell carcinoma. They were treated with excision and imme