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Local/Regional Flaps in Oral/Head and Neck Reconstruction

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The contemporary dictum in head and neck reconstruction is to utilize microvascular transfer techniques. More and more, the use of local or regional flaps has been relegated to the use in the salvage setting of failed microvascular flaps or in patients deemed too sick to undergo long anesthetics as is required for free flap transfers.

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  1. Head Neck Oncology & Microvascular Surgery, University of Florida College of Medicine Jacksonville, 653-1 West 8th Street, LRC Building, 2nd Floor, Jacksonville, FL, 32209, USA

    Rui P. Fernandes MD, DMD, FACS

  2. Division of Head and Neck Surgery, Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, University of Florida College of Medicine Jacksonville, Jacksonville, FL, USA

    Phillip Pirgousis MD, DMD, FACS, FRCS

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    Moni Abraham Kuriakose

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Fernandes, R.P., Pirgousis, P. (2017). Local/Regional Flaps in Oral/Head and Neck Reconstruction. In: Kuriakose, M.A. (eds) Contemporary Oral Oncology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43854-2_11

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