Survival of microvascular free flaps in head and neck surgery after early interruption of the vascular pedicle.

Br J Oral Maxillofac Surg

Department of Maxillofacial Surgery, Middlesbrough General Hospital, Ayresome Green Lane, Middlesbrough, Cleveland TS5 5AZ, UK.

Published: October 2005

Six to nineteen days after insertion of free flaps in oral defects three patients had secondary haemorrhages that necessitated the abolition of venous drainage in two cases and venous and arterial connections in the third. The flaps survived.

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