title: New challenges in head and neck bone and soft tissue reconstruction.
abstract: Emphasizing the major impact of reconstructive microsurgery on the treatment of head and neck tumors, the present paper makes a synthesis of the ideal transplants now commonly used to repair specific cephalic bone and soft tissue defects. It also explores and discusses the new perspectives actually developed to improve their present anatomical, functional and aesthetic results. By extending the use of chimaeric or prefabricated flaps, neurovascular allografts or dynamic transfers, all these new challenges combine the progresses made in surgical skill, conceptual inventivity and basic molecular biology.
authors.affiliation: Clinique de Cancérologie Cervico-Maxillo-Faciale, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Université Catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Lengelé
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hamoir
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: el Fouly
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Willemart
mesh_terms: D005145:Face / Q000601:surgery; D006258:Head and Neck Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008866:Microsurgery; D019651:Plastic Surgery Procedures; D017695:Soft Tissue Injuries / Q000601:surgery; D013524:Surgical Flaps; D014184:Transplantation, Homologous