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Lip Reconstruction

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The lips have a unique functional and aesthetic importance for human beings. It is the essential organ for expressing facial features and emotional feelings. As a functional unit, it maintains the oral competence and assists speech and feed. In general, the etiology of lip defects could be congenital or acquired. Acquired deformities may be broadly grouped as traumatic injuries and cancer resections. In this chapter, we focus on the surgical reconstruction strategies for acquired deformities commonly seen after cancer resections. Squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) is the most common malignancy affecting the lip, unlike the rest of the facial skin where basal cell cancer is predominant. The UV sunlight and tobacco exposure are the most common environmental factors roled in etiology. About 90 % of the lip malignancies are located in the lower lip. The other malignancies and diseases involving the lips are Merkel cell carcinoma, microcystic adnexal carcinoma, hemangiomas, nevi, cheilitis, melanotic macules, and infectious processes like noma [1]. The pathology of the disease is important for planning the margins of resection and final defect size [2].

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  1. Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Head & Neck and Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery Department, Buffalo, NY, USA

    Can Ozturk MD & Cemile Nurdan Ozturk MD

  2. Istanbul University Cerrahpasa Medical Faculty, Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery Department, Istanbul, Turkey

    Oguz Cetinkale MD

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    Moni Abraham Kuriakose

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Ozturk, C., Ozturk, C.N., Cetinkale, O. (2017). Lip Reconstruction. In: Kuriakose, M.A. (eds) Contemporary Oral Oncology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43854-2_9

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