Open AccessPedicled Islanded Nasolabial Flap Tunneled Under Mandible for Tongue Reconstruction
Author(s) -
Gunjan H Shah,
Gyanendra Misra,
Asha Kumari Meena
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of maxillofacial and oral surgery/journal of maxillofacial and oral surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.293
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 0974-942X
pISSN - 0972-8279
DOI - 10.1007/s12663-019-01296-9
Subject(s) - medicine , tongue , swallowing , plastic surgery , oral and maxillofacial surgery , otorhinolaryngology , surgery , free flap , mandible (arthropod mouthpart) , dentistry , botany , pathology , biology , genus
Nasolabial flap is reliable flap in the reconstruction of oral defects over a period of time. Still there is scanty literature available of using this flap for reconstruction of isolated defects of tongue. We carried out this study in our patients to assess the role of pedicled nasolabial flap in reconstruction of isolated tongue defects.