Journal Reviews

5-cm incision for neck dissection and free flap reconstruction

1 May 2017 | | Anastomosis, Minimal Access, Neck Dissection

Patients with oral cavity squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) will commonly require neck dissection as it is associated with a higher rate of overall and disease free survival. Free flap reconstruction of the defect following surgical resection is considered the gold...

Coupler microvascular anastomoses: how good?

1 November 2014 | | ENT, Maxillofacial Surgery, Skull Base Surgery | Anastomosis, Computational modelling, Coupled, Coupler, Microvascular, Sutured

This paper is written by a group of reconstructive surgeons and a school of computing. The study used computational fluid dynamics to model blood flow through idealised sutured and coupled vessels, to investigate if differing anastomotic techniques affect intravascular blood...