BACKGROUND The site, size, and depth of tissue loss, irradiation, or composite injury to adjacent cheek and lip may make local tissues inadequate or unavailable for the repair of major nasal defects. METHODS In 13 patients, a single, folded, horizontal radial forearm flap was used to line the vault and columella, with an incontinuity fasciocutaneous extension to resurface the nasal floor, wit...

INTRODUCTION Reconstruction of nose defects after tumor resection, trauma or infection disease is imperative for full patient rehabilitation. For satisfying esthetic and functional results achievement, it is necessary to use surrounding skin with similar semblance, which precisely restores and imitates missing part with its outlines. MATERIAL AND METHODS This paper represents management of th...

A serious midface defect involving resection of squamous cell carcinoma originating from the hard palate was treated by an unusual reconstructive strategy. After tumor resection, surgical reconstruction was accomplished in one stage using one free flap with one distant and local flap: a radial forearm flap to reconstruct the upper lip, a forehead flap to reconstruct the external nose, a cantile...

School of Medicine, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, USA Correspondence: Dr Paul Ghareeb, School of Medicine, West Virginia University, 1 Bakers Point, Morgantown, West Virginia 26505, USA. Telephone 304-546-9253, fax 304-777-4679, e-mail [email protected] Forehead reconstruction is often challenging due to the aesthetic prominence of the area and difficulties in matching s...

Surgical defects following Mohs surgery can present challenging reconstructive problems. Defect size, shape, and depth cannot be predetermined; and consequently, repairs cannot be preplanned. As a result, the reconstructive surgeon, when designing a cosmetic repair, has to be both ingenious and resourceful. Multiple factors must be considered, including lines of minimal tension, innervation, va...

Department of Plastic Surgery, Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India Address for correspondence: V. Bhattacharya, B-33/14-16, Gandhi Nagar, Naria, Varanasi 221005, Uttar Pradesh, India. E-mail: [email protected] Defects following excision of lesions in and around the oral commissure extending on either lip are not infrequent. A majority of them are mal...

METHODS: 60 patients who had non-melanocytic skin cancer on the only nasal tip were included in this study. There was no previous history of nasal surgery, allergic rhinitis, concha hypertrophy and other breathing problems in any patients. Six patients were treated with forehead flap, ten patients nasolabial island flap, twenty patients bilobe flap that based on inferior, 24 patients bilobe fla...