title: Oral commissure reconstruction with split masseter muscle transposition and cheek skin flap.
abstract: Satisfactory reconstruction of the cheek involving the oral commissure is always challenging. A 64-year-old male patient underwent full-thickness repair of a cheek defect involving the oral commissure following excision of squamous cell carcinoma. Reconstruction was performed with a cheek skin flap combined with split masseter muscle transposition. This method was found to be useful for reconstructing the oral commissure with good functional and aesthetic results.
authors.affiliation: Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Afyon Kocatepe University, Afyon, Turkey. yavserbar@yahoo.com
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Demir
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Latifoğlu
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Yavuzer
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Atabay
mesh_terms: D002294:Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / Q000601:surgery; D002610:Cheek / Q000601:surgery*; D004954:Esthetics; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008046:Lip / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery*; D008297:Male; D008406:Masseter Muscle / Q000637:transplantation*; D008875:Middle Aged; D009062:Mouth Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery; D009119:Muscle Contraction / Q000502:physiology; D016038:Skin Transplantation / Q000379:methods*; D013524:Surgical Flaps