title: [Interest of free flaps for cranial base reconstruction].
abstract: We describe our experience in treating 7 patients who underwent skull base reconstruction with free flap (6 latissimus dorsi, 1 rectus abdominis) between October 1996 and November 1998. Four patients underwent temporal bone resection with auricular resection, 2 patients underwent anterior and middle cranial fossa resection, 1 patient underwent frontotemporal resection. There have been no failures of the free flaps and one cerebrospinal fluid leak. We advocate free flap reconstruction after temporal bone resection with auricular resection, and after anterior or middle cranial fossa resection when local flap options are not available or with complex dead space.
authors.affiliation: Service ORL et de Chirurgie Maxillo-Faciale et Plastique, Hôpital Lariboisière, 2 rue Ambroise Paré, Paris. didier.salvan@lrb.ap-hop-paris.fr
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Salvan
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Lot
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Portier
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Herman
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: George
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Tran Ba Huy
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002277:Carcinoma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011183:Postoperative Complications; D019651:Plastic Surgery Procedures / Q000379:methods*; D019292:Skull Base Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D013524:Surgical Flaps; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed