Comparison of negative pressure wound therapy and conventional dressing methods for fibula free flap donor site management in patients with head and neck cancer.

Background: Evaluation of the efficacy of negative pressure wound therapy in fibula free flap donor site management in head and neck cancer.

Methods: We conducted a single-center retrospective study from 2007 to 2013 comparing fibula free flap donor site healing time after conventional bolster dressing or negative pressure wound therapy.

Results: Thirteen patients were treated by conventional dressing and 16 patients were treated by negative pressure wound therapy.

Velopharyngeal function after free thoracodorsal artery perforator flap in lateral and superior oropharyngeal cancer.

The purpose of this study was to report our experience with the free thoracodorsal artery perforator flap for reconstruction of the oropharynx and soft palate in head and neck cancer using a retrospective review of the medical charts of all patients undergoing oropharyngeal reconstruction by free thoracodorsal artery perforator flap during the same procedure as cancer resection between January 2011 and April 2013. Evaluation of speech, feeding and the presence of nasal emissions was performed 6 months after treatment in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki. Nine patients were evaluated.

Surgical strategy in the treatment of globe protrusion depending on its mechanism (Graves' disease, nonsyndromic exorbitism, or high myopia).

Background: Graves' ophthalmopathy affects orbital contents and eyelids. Protrusion of the globe can also be the result of myopia and/or an abnormal orbit shape, which is responsible for nonsyndromic exorbitism. It is necessary to recognize these components of protrusion to treat patients adequately.

Orbital morphology in exophthalmos and exorbitism.

Background: Exophthalmos is a protrusion of the eyeball due to an increase in orbital contents in a normal bony orbit. Exorbitism is a protrusion of the eyeball due to a decrease in capacity of the orbital container, with a normal orbital content volume such as seen in a congenital form termed nonsyndromic exorbitism. High myopia can enhance proptosis.