Congenital cleft palate causes a serious obstacle to children with regard to language and eating function. The aim of the current study was to examine the clinical application of a type of palatoplasty that has a reduced impact on the maxillary growth and good function in velopharyngeal competence. A total of 37 patients with cleft palate were treated with levator veli palatini retropositioning...

BACKGROUND: The iliac osteocutaneous flap provides excellent vascularized bone for hardware fixation and osseointegrated implants, but a main drawback is the reliability of the skin island. The purpose of our study was to present novel techniques to increase the reliability of the iliac osteocutaneous flap using vein grafting, resulting in a single flap donor site and a single set of recipient ...

The frontalis musculocutaneous island flap offers advantages of immediate repair for small to medium-sized forehead defects (0.5-5 x 0.5-5 cm). Based on the supraorbital artery, the flap is both adaptable and dependable. Advantages of this flap include the ability to perform the procedure immediately and in one stage, rapid aesthetic restoration, minor donor-site morbidity, and technical ease. ...

PURPOSE To describe a new technique for staged hypospadias repair in which the urethral plate is divided and tubularized transverse island flap prefabricated partial distal urethral at the time of the first stage. MATERIALS AND METHODS Sixteen patients with proximal hypospadias associated with severe chordee were operated on using a new staged technique. At the time of the first stage, the ur...

OBJECTIVE To assess the use of tunica vaginalis graft plus onlay preputial island flap in urethral reconstructive surgery in rabbits through histopathology. MATERIAL AND METHODS We developed an experimental model of urethroplasty that resembles one-stage complex hypospadias surgery with divided urethral plate. The tunica vaginalis graft is dorsally placed to recreate the urethral plate and th...

OBJECTIVE To determine the outcome of heel and ankle reconstruction with distally-based sural island flap. STUDY DESIGN Case series. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY The study was carried out in Plastic Surgery Department, Chittagong Medical College Hospital, from January 2007 to April 2009. METHODOLOGY Twenty two subjects with soft tissue defect of heel and ankle requiring coverage were inclu...

BACKGROUND The most important step in bone graft management is soft tissue coverage. Dehiscence of the wound leads to graft exposure and subsequent problems. PURPOSE This study introduces an axial pattern flap for bone graft coverage in anterior maxilla. PATIENTS AND METHODS Use of Anterior Palatal Island Advancement Flap is presented by the authors. It is a mucoperiosteal flap with axial p...

The pedicled pectoralis major myocutaneous (PMMC) flap is versatile, and is widely used for the treatment of surgical defects following oral cancer resection. Although free-tissue transfer of a vascularized free flap is often preferred, the clinical benefits of the PMMC flap should not be overlooked. The conventional technique of harvesting a PMMC flap involves a single vascular supply from the...

This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/bync/ 3.0/) which permits unrestricted noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Purpose: The reverse digital island flap is useful for the repair of various fingertip injur...