Extending the Indication of the Superior Thyroid Artery as a Recipient Vessel for Complex Upper Body Defects.

Annals of Plastic Surgery
Denis EhrlNicholas Moellhoff

Abstract

Reconstruction of complex chest and upper back defects can pose a challenge to microsurgeons, especially when prior surgery, scarring, tumor resection, or radiotherapy, have caused a shortage of recipient vessels. Although already being a standard approach for head and neck reconstructions, we investigated whether the indication of the superior thyroid artery (STA) as a safe and universal recipient vessel could be extended for reconstruction in aforementioned regions. Seventeen patients received free myocutaneous vastus lateralis (MVL) muscle flaps for reconstruction of upper body defects (chest n = 11; upper back n = 6). In all cases, the STA was used for microvascular anastomosis because of a lack of standard recipient vessels. A retrospective chart review was performed and the data was screened for patients' demographics, intraoperative and perioperative details, flap survival, surgical complications, and overall long-term outcomes. Patients had a minimum follow-up of 6 months. Defects resulted from infections after cardiac surgery (n = 10), infections after spinal neurosurgery (n = 2) or tumor resection (n = 5). Average defect size measured 144.6 (range, 40-286 cm2; ±67.9 cm2), with a mean size of the MVL free flaps of 266....Continue Reading

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