Assessing the suitability of medial sural artery perforator flaps in tongue reconstruction - An outcome study.

INTRODUCTION:Oncological resection of the tongue can be reconstructed using a multitude of free flaps. The medial sural artery perforator (MSAP) flap has been well described in the literature in terms of its anatomy and harvest. However, functional outcome studies of post-reconstruction tongue defec...

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Main Authors: Shao-Yu Hung, Charles Yuen Yung Loh, Soo-Ha Kwon, Chia-Hsuan Tsai, Kai-Ping Chang, Huang-Kai Kao
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5300198?pdf=render