chapped lip repair

Figure 2: (a) A case of recurrent carcinoma of buccal mucosa and cheek with unreconstructed defect. (b) Same in front view, excision up to retromolar region. (c) The upper neck – lower face skin flap completely lifted up off the mandible, which removes any possible regular platysma blood supply. (d) The same upper neck – lower face skin flap, a donor site, external view. (e) The island flap created at the upper and anterior border of the above flap, just below the defect. (f) The island flap turned into create buccal lining. (g) The turned in part inset into the defect for the buccal lining. (h) Post-reconstruction external view, see tip congestion. (i) Wound dehiscence, not necrosis, at the lower lip. Maybe one can avoid anterior part of the incision in the flap which reconstructed the lower lip. (j) Following complete healing. Six months post-operative


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Submitted on Feb 6, 2018