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[Reconstruction of hypopharyngeal cavity with neck reverse rectangular thinned skin flap]
1Department of Otolaryngology, First Clinical Hospital, China Medical University, Shenyang 110001.
Objective:
To study the postoperative convalescence of swallow after reconstruction of hypopharyngeal defect with the neck reverse rectangular thinned skin flap.
Method:
A thinned reverse skin flap was designed in the middle line of a platysma skin flap, and was used in hypopharyngeal reconstruction for 20 patients with squamous cell carcinoma of the hypopharynx.
Result:
No skin flap complications occurred in all patients. Fistulas in 5 cases healed spontaneously in 7 days to 10 days without further surgery. One case with lower anastomotic site stenosis was performed by subsequent successful surgery. The survival rate was 50% and 33.3% respectively after 3 years and 5 years follow up.
Conclusion:
This flap was effectively applied for reconstruction of hypopharyngeal defect for hypopharyngeal cancer, which was easy to master by surgeons, and was a high successful procedure of choice.