title: Plastic surgery after ablative cancer surgery.
abstract: Plastic and reconstructive surgery often is conceptualized either as "cosmetic" or as involving complex operations with massive flaps or time-consuming and difficult microsurgery. A number of personal cases are used to illustrate that reconstruction after cancer surgery, even reconstruction of some large tumors, can be performed with modern modifications of classic local flaps, but that sound knowledge and skill in basic surgical and plastic techniques are inescapable prerequisites.
authors.affiliation: University of Lausanne, Avenue de la Dole 17, CH-1005, Lausanne, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Gaston-Francois
authors.initials: GF
authors.lastname: Maillard
authors.forename: Laurence
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Garey
mesh_terms: D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D003528:Carcinoma, Adenoid Cystic / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D002280:Basal Cell Carcinoma / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D017115:Catheter Ablation / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008048:Lip Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D009669:Nose Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D010307:Parotid Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D019651:Plastic Surgery Procedures / Q000379:methods*; D012535:Scalp; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D013524:Surgical Flaps