title: Treatment of a maxillary defect following resection of carcinoma.
abstract: A group of 37 oncological patients with tumours of the head and neck where extensive resection of the face, maxilla or mandible or calva was necessary, comprised five patients with a typical defect after resection of part of the maxilla including half of the palate and exenteration of the orbit. This extensive defect causes discomfort to the patient and his environment--functional i.e. impaired speech, and cosmetic. A satisfactory solution during reconstruction of the maxilla without the need of skeletal reconstruction is microsurgical transplantation of a narrow flap of the latissimus dorsi, usually with two cutaneous islands--one to close the palate and the other to close the orbit and face.
authors.affiliation: Clinic of Plastic and Aesthetic Surgery, St. Ann Faculty Hospital, Brno.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Veselý
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Hlozek
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Krejcová
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Smrcka
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Mannino
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D006801:Humans; D008437:Maxilla / Q000601:surgery*; D008441:Maxillary Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*; D019651:Plastic Surgery Procedures / Q000379:methods*