title: Repair of severe tissue loss and deformity of maxillofacial area.
abstract: Our experience in the management of 125 patients with massive facial defects since 1975 is detailed. The defects were closed in one of four principal ways (or a combination thereof): (1) free flap, (2) musculocutaneous flap, (3) forehead flap, and (4) dorsal tube flap. The surgical details and indications for each of these are outlined and examples given.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005145:Face / Q000601:surgery*; D005151:Facial Injuries / Q000601:surgery; D005153:Facial Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D013518:Surgery, Plastic / Q000379:methods*; D013524:Surgical Flaps