[Clinical assessment of rehabilitation after radical surgery of tongue cancer.].
It is same important to consider both patient's own evaluation and the clinical examination.It is helpful to judge the state of the functional rehabilitation. We have followed up 128 cases of tongue cancer postoperatively,recieved 104 letters and checked up 87 patients in the clinic.It has been discovered:1.the female patients paid more attention to the speech and apperance,while the male to the eating;2.on the donor site of flaps,some patients complained of the numbness in the fingers and the obvious scars in the forearm flap,while the fracilis myocutaneous flap is a relatively good method;3.in the cases of 1/2 anterior glossal defect,the forearm flap is available;to that more than 2/3 defect of the tongue,we used the myocutaneous flaps which have great volume of tissue;4.it is necessary to concern the mobility of the essential factors effecting the functional rehabilitation.
Zhang
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Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery,School of Stomatology,Shanghai Second Medical University. Shanghai 200011, China.
Qiu
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Lin
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