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Abstract
With the aim of voice restoration after repair of a total defect or obstruction of the cervical trachea, we developed a new method of total cervical tracheal reconstruction with a free forearm flap. The forearm flap is inverted to form a tube and then interposed between the subglottic trachea and an adjacent cutaneous fistula created at the upper portion of the tracheostoma. A permanent tracheostoma is preserved, and an L-shaped silicone tube is inserted in the reconstructed cervical trachea and the tracheostoma as a stent. In two patients, both became able to speak.
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Publication history
Accepted:
May 18,
1992
Received:
February 24,
1992
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© 1993 The British Association of Plastic Surgeons. Published by Elsevier Inc.