Comparison of the hospitalization period after microvascular reconstruction flap in trismus patients: free anterolateral thigh flap versus free forearm flap.
Clin Oral Investig
; 23(7): 2951-2957, 2019 Jul.
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ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVES:
The primary strategy for treating oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) is therapeutic resection, with the trismus resection defect reconstructed via free flap. The most popular free flaps include the radial forearm free flap (RFFF) and anterolateral thigh free flap (ALT). This study investigated the relationships between the hospitalization period and a variety of surgical outcomes, as well as maximum inter-incisor distance (IID), in trismus patients who chewed betel nuts. MATERIALS ANDMETHODS:
Forty-nine primary OSCC patients who chewed betel nuts and underwent surgical resection and reconstruction between 2010 and 2016 were enrolled in this retrospective study. The data were from a single center in Taiwan. The outcome variable after flap recovery surgery was the duration of postoperative hospitalization. Other factors that were analyzed comprised correlations between hospitalization and a variety of factors, including postoperative inter-incisor distances (IIDs), operative time, gender, and WBC count, upon stratification into two reconstruction groups.RESULTS:
The mean postoperative hospitalization duration in the ALT group was 22.9 ± 7.2 days, which was significantly shorter than that in the RFFF group (27.8 ± 7.0 days; p = 0.019). Two-week postoperative IID (ALT group 16.1 ± 0.8 mm; RFFF group 7.0 ± 0.6 mm) was inversely related to the duration of hospitalization (p = 0.022, r = - 0.372).CONCLUSIONS:
The ALT flap is more effective than the RFFF flap to reduce the length of hospitalization in trismus patients. CLINICAL RELEVANCE The ALT flap should be considered as a first-line technique in OSCC reconstruction in trismus patient reconstruction.Palavras-chave
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Assunto principal:
Neoplasias Bucais
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Carcinoma de Células Escamosas
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Procedimentos de Cirurgia Plástica
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Retalhos de Tecido Biológico
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Tempo de Internação
Tipo de estudo:
Observational_studies
Limite:
Adult
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Aged
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Female
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Humans
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Male
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Middle aged
País/Região como assunto:
Asia
Idioma:
En
Ano de publicação:
2019
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Article