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Salvage of successful mandibular advancement for obstructive sleep apnea using a bipedicle osteocutaneous scapular
1Department of Surgery, Emory University Affiliated Hospitals, Atlanta, GA.
Annals of Plastic Surgery
|July 1, 1991
Abstract:
An interesting case is presented of a woman with obstructive sleep apnea due to mandibular hypoplasia who was successfully treated with mandibular advancement. After a postoperative complication, the correction was salvaged by using a previously undescribed bipedicled osteocutaneous scapular free flap.