>Method to prevent cheek depression using an island sternocleidomastoid muscle flap with the middle pedicle as a feeding vessel in immediate reconstruction of the facial nerve with the sural nerve following resection of a parotid gland tumor

>Method to prevent cheek depression using an island sternocleidomastoid muscle flap with the middle pedicle as a feeding vessel in immediate reconstruction of the facial nerve with the sural nerve following resection of a parotid gland tumor

Many surgeons have demonstrated the validity of sternocleidomastoid muscle flaps for the reconstruction of head and neck tumors. We present a case in which we used an island sternocleidomastoid muscle flap to reconstruct a cheek depression after excision of a malignant parotid tumor. A 44-year-old w...

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Main Authors: Naoki Matsuura, Hisashi Sakuma, Ayano Shimono
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Thieme Medical Publishers, Inc. 2021-03-01
Series:Archives of Plastic Surgery
Subjects:
facial nerve
parotid neoplasms
island sternocleidomastoid muscle flap
Online Access:http://www.thieme-connect.de/DOI/DOI?10.5999/aps.2020.00668

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