Regional and Free Flaps for Head and Neck Reconstruction Basics and Foundations

This book provides a focused description of the major regional and free flaps used in head and neck reconstruction. It functions as a single source of information on options in head and neck reconstruction. The book is divided into two parts, with Part 1 focusing on regional flaps and Part 2 focusing on free flaps. These will be further divided into the type of tissue the regional or free flap would provide. This allows readers to quickly and efficiently review information on these reconstructive options.

Additionally, the book provides operative procedure and steps of the harvest, as well as supplemental photographs and image. Each section will include bullets on Indications, contraindications, tips and pearls, and postoperative care. The book will also include a sections on other topics including vein and nerve grafts as well as techniques to utilize in a vessel depleted neck.

Regional and Free Flaps for Head and Neck Reconstruction will be invaluable to  medical students, residents, fellows, and condensed information for attendings that span multiple disciplines of ENT, Plastics and Oral maxillofacial surgery. 

Part1.Regional Flaps.- Partial Lip Reconstruction:Abbe and Estlander Flaps.- Anterolateral Thigh Free Flap.-Cervicofacial Flap.- Deltopectoral Regional Flap.- Facial Artery Myomucosal Flap.- Fibular Free Flap.-Gracilis Free Flap.- Iliac Crest Free Flap.- Infraclavicular pedicled adipofascial flap.- Jejunal Free Flap.- Lateral Arm Free Flap.- Latissimus Dorsi Free Flap.- Total Lip Reconstruction: Gilles, Bernard-von Burow, and Karapandzic Flaps.- Melolabial flap.- Medial Sural Artery Perforator Free Flap.-Osteocutaneous Radial Forearm Free Flap.- Part 2.Free Flaps.- Omentum and Gastro-Omental Free Flap.- Palatal Island Flap.- Paramedian Forehead Flap.- Scapular and Parascapular Free Flaps.- Pectoralis Major Regional Flap.- Radial Forearm Free Flap.- Rectus Abdominus Free Flap.- Scapular Tip and Lateral Scapular Border Free Flap.- Serratus Anterior with Rib Free Flap.- Superior Labial Artery Mucosal Flap.- Submental Island Flap.- Supraclavicular Artery Island Flap.- Thoracodorsal Artery Perforator Flap.- Temporalis Flap.- Temporoparietal Fascial Flap.- Lower Trapezius Myocutaneous Flap.- Ulnar Forearm Free Flap.- Vessel-Depleted Neck.

Rod Rezaee, MD, FACS, is the Director of Head and Neck Surgical Oncology and Reconstruction at the University Hospitals Ear, Nose and Throat Institute and Professor of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery in the Ear, Nose and Throat Institute at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. He is the Medical Director of the Surgical Oncology unit at UH Seidman Cancer Center and serves on the NCCN Thyroid Cancer Guidelines Committee as the representative of Case Comprehensive Cancer Center. He also serves on multiple national committees within the American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (AAO-HNS) and the American Head and Neck Society (AHNS), helping to improve the surgical, reconstructive, and non-surgical care of head and neck cancer patients. Dr. Rezaee is a Governing Board Member of the Microvascular Reconstructive Surgery Committee within the AHNS. In addition, he serves as the Head and Neck Surgery Sub-group Leader for AAO-HNS Annual Meeting Planning Committee.

Akina Tamaki, MD, is the Associate Residency Program Director and a head and neck surgeon at the University Hospitals Ear, Nose and Throat Institute and Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery in the Ear, Nose and Throat Institute at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine with fellowship training in head and neck oncology and microvascular reconstructive surgery. Her special interests include head and neck cancer and microvascular reconstruction. He also serves on multiple national committees within the American Academyof Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery and the American Head and Neck Society (AHNS), in improving the surgical and medical care of head and neck cancer patients as well as advancing the head and neck specialty at a national level.