[Primary plastic repair in the surgical treatment of cancer of the anterior portions of the mouth].

An experience with using the method of primary plasty of 54 patients with carcinoma of frontal portions of the oral cavity with muscular-cutaneous flaps is described. Preoperative irradiation (from 30 to 80 Gr) was given to 51 patients. Radical operations on the neck were performed on all the patients (in 15 patients the operations were bilateral). Necroses of the flaps were noted in 27.8% of the patients, mainly after doses of X-ray therapy of 50-80 Gr, suppuration of the wound in 64.8%. Good cosmetic and functional results were obtained in 44 patients (81.3%). The average time of staying at the hospital was 33.7 days.