{"title":"The use of a forehead flap to reconstruct the soft and hard palate after cancer excision.","authors":"G Gende","doi":"","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The successful use of a modified forehead flap technique to reconstruct an extensive defect of the soft palate after cancer resection is described. Postoperative swallowing and speech were good and nasal incontinence was short-lived. This can be an addition to the limited techniques available to surgeons working in this challenging area.</p>","PeriodicalId":76302,"journal":{"name":"Papua and New Guinea medical journal","volume":"54 1-2","pages":"59-62"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2011-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Papua and New Guinea medical journal","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The successful use of a modified forehead flap technique to reconstruct an extensive defect of the soft palate after cancer resection is described. Postoperative swallowing and speech were good and nasal incontinence was short-lived. This can be an addition to the limited techniques available to surgeons working in this challenging area.