Management of Through-and-Through Oromandibular Defects after Segmental Mandibulectomy with Fibula Osteocutaneous Flap.

Background:  Oromandibular defects involving the external skin are a reconstructive challenge. This study aimed to evaluate the use of the fibula osteocutaneous free flap (FOCFF) for through-and-through oromandibular defects by comparing the surgical outcomes and complications of different techniques to close the external skin defect.

Methods:  A retrospective analysis was conducted of patients who underwent reconstruction of through-and-through oromandibular defects after oncologic segmental mandibulectomy between January 2011 and December 2014.

Outcome Analysis of Advanced Oral Cancers Requiring Large Composite Fibular Osteocutaneous Flap Reconstruction: Experience From a Tertiary Care Cancer Hospital.

Background: Advanced oral cancer entailing extensive resection of large parts of the mucosa, bone, and skin require reconstructions with composite free flaps. Our aim was to analyze the outcomes of those oral squamous cell carcinomas requiring fibular osteocutaneous free flaps with large skin defects.

Methods: Perioperative course and histopathological and survival outcomes of 246 consecutive patients warranting composite fibular flaps from January 2010 to June 2015 at Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai, India, were retrospectively analyzed.

Carcinoma stomach: unwanted chemotherapeutic success: a case vignette.

A 45-years-old male, chronic smoker and occasional alcoholic, from Tamenlong district of Manipur was admitted to the department of Surgery, RIMS, Imphal on 19(th) August, 2011. He was diagnosed as a case of poorly differentiated adenocarcinoma of the stomach located at incissura along the lesser curvature. CT scan of abdomen had revealed para-aortic, aorto-caval and celiac lymphadenopathy.