BACKGROUND With the idea of "replacing lost tissure with similar tissure in kind", vessel-pedicled palate mucosal flap, pedicled buccal musculomucosal flap and adjacent tongue musculomucosal flap could be the ideal approaches to soft palate reconstruction. AIM To assess the adjacent tongue musculomucosal flap for soft palate reconstruction. PATIENTS AND METHODS From August 2010 to July 2011...

INTRODUCTION The purpose of this study was to evaluate the outcome of our early experience with the distally pedicled peroneus brevis flap in the management of soft tissue defects of the lower leg, ankle and foot. METHODS This was a non-randomised, retrospective study involving five patients who were treated with the peroneus brevis muscle flap for soft tissue defects over the lower leg. RE...

The number of breast reconstruction procedures has been increasing in recent years. One of the suggested treatment methods is breast reconstruction with a pedicled skin and muscle TRAM flap (transverse rectus abdominis muscle - TRAM). Surgical incisions performed during a cholecystectomy procedure may be located in the areas significant for flap survival. The aim of this paper is to present ana...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study is to determine the correlation between non-technical risk factors and the perioperative flap survival rate and to evaluate the choice of skin flap for the reconstruction of foot and ankle. METHODS This was a clinical retrospective study. Nine variables were identified. The Kaplan-Meier method coupled with a log-rank test and a Cox regression model was used...

RATIONALE Numerous types of flap coverage have been reported to prevent or to repair bronchopleural fistulas. Most of the flaps were harvested from chest area. However, these pedicled flaps might not be optimal for the patient who has undergone previous radiotherapy on pulmonary parenchyma because the pedicle artery of the flap might have been injured by irradiation. Therefore, an alternative f...

Objective: Prospective non-randomised comparison of full-thickness pedicled diaphragm flap with intercostal muscle flap in terms of morbidity and efficiency for bronchial stump coverage after induction therapy followed by pneumonectomy for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Methods: Between 1996 and 1998, a consecutive series of 26 patients underwent pneumonectomy following induction therapy. ...

Soft tissue coverage after the resection of a large malignant peripheral neural sheath tumor (MPNST) is a challenge. We report the successful reconstruction of an extensive shoulder defect after MPNST resection in a patient with a type 1 neurofibromatosis with a novel combination of flaps. A 70-year-old man with type 1 neurofibromatosis presented with a recurrent MPNST on his right shoulder. He...

We describe the use of a pedicled unipolar latissimus dorsi flap to restore finger extension. The patient had large defects in the radial nerve and extensor musculature. A long-tailed, 50-cm-long flap was prepared, which enabled the end of the flap to be sutured to the extensor digitorum.

introduCtion: The pedicled ALT reaches defects from the mid-abdomen to the perineum, and can extend to cover the knee in reverse pedicled ALTs. The lateral femoral cutaneous nerve (LFCN) provides sensation to the well-known flap. Based off of the descending branch of the lateral femoral cutaneous artery, multiple skin islands and the vastus lateralis muscle can be combined. We present the safet...

introduCtion: The pedicled ALT reaches defects from the mid-abdomen to the perineum, and can extend to cover the knee in reverse pedicled ALTs. The lateral femoral cutaneous nerve (LFCN) provides sensation to the well-known flap. Based off of the descending branch of the lateral femoral cutaneous artery, multiple skin islands and the vastus lateralis muscle can be combined. We present the safet...