Hussain Touqeer, Tahir Hasan, Rahman Obaid U R, Beg Mirza Shehab Afzal
Department of Plastics and Reconstructive Surgery, Liaquat National Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan.
Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Liaquat National Hospital and Medical College, Karachi, Pakistan.
Case Reports Plast Surg Hand Surg. 2021 Sep 18;8(1):140-144. doi: 10.1080/23320885.2021.1977137. eCollection 2021.
Trismus in post-radiotherapy patients is mostly secondary to fibrosis of buccal mucosa and muscles of mastication. After releasing trismus, mucosal defect needs to be covered with soft and supple tissue. We used a non-conventional method to cover this defect i.e. dumbbell-shape forearm free-flap based on a single radial artery.
放疗后患者的牙关紧闭大多继发于颊黏膜和咀嚼肌纤维化。在解除牙关紧闭后,黏膜缺损需要用柔软且有弹性的组织覆盖。我们采用了一种非常规方法来覆盖此缺损,即基于单一桡动脉的哑铃形前臂游离皮瓣。