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Reconstructive Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery pp 129–162Cite as

Reconstruction of Soft Tissue Defects with Regional Flaps

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Regional flaps are pedicle flaps obtained from anatomical regions close to the defect to be constructed. Their advantages over pedicle flaps are similarity with the skin adjacent to the defect (color, texture, and hair), the speed with which they can be harvested, and the lower cost, lower comorbidity, and lower personnel and infrastructure requirements. Their disadvantages are their limited size, limited distance between the donor site and the receptor site, and lower predictability when preparing compound flaps with bone. Regional flaps can sometimes be combined with microvascular free flaps for the reconstruction of complex defects.

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  1. Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain

    José Ignacio Salmerón Escobar MD, PhD, FEBOMS (Associate professor, Medical Faculty) & Carlos Navarro Vila MD, DMD, PhD, FEBOMS (Full professor, Medical Faculty)

  2. Consultant at Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Department, Gregorio Marañón General University Hospital, Madrid, Spain

    José Ignacio Salmerón Escobar MD, PhD, FEBOMS (Associate professor, Medical Faculty)

  3. Consultant at Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Department, University Hospital del Sur, Madrid, Spain

    José Alfonso Ruiz Cruz MD, DDS, FEBOMS

  4. Consultant at Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Department, Miguel Servet University Hospital, Zaragoza, Spain

    Ana María López López MD, DDS, FEBOMS

  5. Head of Oral and Maxillofacial Department Surgery, Gregorio Marañón General University Hospital, Madrid, Spain

    Carlos Navarro Vila MD, DMD, PhD, FEBOMS (Full professor, Medical Faculty)

  6. Académico Correspondiente of the Royal National Academy of Medicine of Spain, Madrid, Spain

    Carlos Navarro Vila MD, DMD, PhD, FEBOMS (Full professor, Medical Faculty)

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Salmerón Escobar, J.I., Ruiz Cruz, J.A., López López, A.M., Navarro Vila, C. (2015). Reconstruction of Soft Tissue Defects with Regional Flaps. In: Navarro Vila, C. (eds) Reconstructive Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20487-1_5

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