Free flap reconstruction represents a cornerstone in the modern management of advanced oral and maxillofacial defects. This technique involves the transfer of tissue along with its vascular pedicle ...

If you or someone you love is facing a mouth cancer diagnosis, MSK experts can help. If you want to learn about surgeries to ...

When a patient with head and neck cancer has surgery to remove it, they often need reconstructive surgery in the form of a “free flap”, which is skin and tissue taken from a different part of the body ...

According to a new study from the University of Missouri School of Medicine, holding blood thinners for too long both before and after free flap reconstruction surgery could jeopardize the patient's ...

Cancer itself or cancer treatments may affect the way your body works or looks. When this happens, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center and the UW Center for Reconstructive Surgery provide expert solutions.

Autologous breast reconstruction techniques are classified into different types based on the composition of flaps and the source of the tissue. TRAM refers to the transverse rectus abdominis muscle ...

Tissue reconstruction is commonly needed to repair damage after certain types of surgery, such as breast reconstruction after a mastectomy. Other examples with significant implications for quality of ...