Reconstruction of a large surgical defect on the lower eyelid and infraorbital cheek.
An 83-year-old white woman was referred for Mohs micrographic surgery of a lentigo maligna on the left malar cheek. The tumor was completely removed in four stages, leaving an irregularly shaped defect that measured 3.8 x 4.7 cm and that involved the left lower lateral eyelid and infraorbital cheek (Figure 1). How would you reconstruct this defect?
Department of Dermatology, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, USA.
Alysa R
AR
Herman
Richard G
RG
Bennet
D000368:Aged; D002610:Cheek / Q000601:surgery*; D005143:Eyelids / Q000601:surgery*; D005153:Facial Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D018327:Hutchinson's Melanotic Freckle / Q000601:surgery*; D019651:Plastic Surgery Procedures; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*; D013524:Surgical Flaps