PMID- 27217667
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
DCOM- 20160524
LR  - 20200929
IS  - 0975-7651 (Print)
IS  - 0976-6952 (Electronic)
IS  - 0975-7651 (Linking)
VI  - 6
IP  - 3
DP  - 2015 Sep
TI  - Submental Artery Island Flap in Patients who Have Received Prior Neck 
      Irradiation.
PG  - 218-22
LID - 10.1007/s13193-015-0400-5 [doi]
AB  - Submental Artery Flap (SMAF) was first described in 1990 and has gained 
      popularity ever since. However there has been relative paucity on information 
      about the use of this flap in irradiated patients. Our aim was to explore the 
      success of SMAF for reconstructing defects following oral cancer resection in 
      this group of patients After prior approval from scientific and ethical 
      committee, we performed a retrospective review of records of eleven patients who 
      underwent SMAF reconstruction between March 2009 and September 2012. Seven 
      patients (63 %) had undergone prior irradiation . The flap was viable in all the 
      patients excepting for superficial epidermal loss in one patient who had 
      undergone prior irradiation. There was major donor site complication in one, and 
      recurrences in four patients, all in the irradiated group. SMAF may be used in 
      patients with irradiated neck taking special precautions to avoid donor site 
      morbidity. Previous neck irradiation may not affect flap viability.
FAU - Ramkumar, Aravind
AU  - Ramkumar A
AD  - Department of Surgical Oncology, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical 
      Education and Research, IIIrd Floor Superspecialty Block, Puducherry, 605006 
      India.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20150404
PL  - India
TA  - Indian J Surg Oncol
JT  - Indian journal of surgical oncology
JID - 101532448
PMC - PMC4856685
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Neck dissection
OT  - Oral cancer
OT  - Radiotherapy
OT  - Reconstruction
OT  - Submental flap
EDAT- 2016/05/25 06:00
MHDA- 2016/05/25 06:01
PMCR- 2016/09/01
CRDT- 2016/05/25 06:00
PHST- 2014/05/23 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2015/03/04 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2016/05/25 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2016/05/25 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2016/05/25 06:01 [medline]
PHST- 2016/09/01 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - 400 [pii]
AID - 10.1007/s13193-015-0400-5 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Indian J Surg Oncol. 2015 Sep;6(3):218-22. doi: 10.1007/s13193-015-0400-5. Epub 
      2015 Apr 4.