Cutaneous Flaps in Head and Neck Reconstruction

It is said, "fear in surgery is fear of anatomy." Unfortunately, there is a chasm between the anatomy learned in the traditional way and what we see during surgery. The aim of this work is to offer the means to resolve this in a comprehensive way by bridging relative anatomy straight to the surgical use of cutaneous flaps in head and neck reconstruction, which is not normally found in a single text. Cutaneous local and regional flaps still remain a basic tool in the armamentarium of surgeons coming from different specialties that work in the head and neck area. These flaps are used even for very large defects, despite the ever-growing utilization of free flaps due to the fact that they are time-consuming, not cost-effective, do not require special microsurgical training, and represent the first choice of surgeons. This book is organized in chapters according to the anatomic areas, which represent the various donor sites from which flaps are derived and used in head and neck defects. These donor sites are present separately in each chapter of the book and include: scalp, temple, posterior neck, forehead, nose, cheek, lips, chin, auricle, anterior neck, and deltopectoral region.