Microsurgical facial reconstruction of a xeroderma pigmentosum patient after skin tumor resection: case report.
Microsurgical reconstruction of the face completely destroyed after malignant skin tumor excisions in a xeroderma pigmentosum patient is reported. The patient's left cheek was reconstructed using a free latissimus dorsi flap and the nose using a free forearm flap with a base of iliac bone graft. There has been no recurrence of tumor at or surrounding the transferred flap site over two years postoperative follow-up.
Akizuki
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Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, University of Tokyo, Japan.
Harii
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D000328:Adult; D001913:Bowen's Disease / Q000601:surgery; D002280:Basal Cell Carcinoma / Q000601:surgery; D002294:Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / Q000601:surgery; D005153:Facial Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012086:Reoperation; D012225:Rhinoplasty; D013524:Surgical Flaps / Q000379:methods*; D014983:Xeroderma Pigmentosum / Q000601:surgery*