Skip to main content

Advertisement

SpringerLink
Log in

Simultaneous total upper and lower lip reconstruction during a humanitarian surgical mission to Africa

  • Short Communication
  • Published:
European Journal of Plastic Surgery Aims and scope Submit manuscript

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Fig. 1
Fig. 2
Fig. 3
Fig. 4

References

  1. Baumann D, Robb G (2008) Lip reconstruction. Semin Plast Surg 22:269–280

    Article  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

  2. Pepper JP, Baker SR (2013) Local flaps: cheek and lip reconstruction. JAMA Facial Plast Surg 15:374–82

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  3. Fernandes R, Clemow J (2012) Outcomes of total or near-total lip reconstruction with microvascular tissue transfer. J Oral Maxillofac Surg 70:2899–906

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  4. Bai S, Li RW, Xu ZF, Duan WY, Liu FY, Sun CF (2015) Total and near-total lower lip reconstruction: 20 years experience. J Craniomaxillofac Surg 43:367–72

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  5. Jeng SF, Kuo YR, Wei FC, Su CY, Chien CY (2004) Total lower lip reconstruction with a composite radial forearm-palmaris longus tendon flap: a clinical series. Plast Reconstr Surg 113:19–23

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  6. Exner K, Kuhn T (2010) Gillies’ und McLaughlin’s dynamischer Muskeltransfer bei irreversibler Fazialisparese. Handchir Mikrochir Plast Chir 42:102–108

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  7. Burusapat C, Pitiseree A (2012) Advanced squamous cell carcinoma involving both upper and lower lips and oral commissure with simultaneous reconstruction by local flap: a case report. J Med Case Rep 6:23

    Article  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

  8. Oseni OG, Fadare AE, Majaro MO, Olaitan PB (2015) Total reconstruction of the upper lip using bilateral nasolabial flaps, submental flap, and mucosa graft following complete resection for squamous cell carcinoma. Case Rep Surg 2015:782151

    CAS  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

  9. Nthumba P, Carter L (2009) Visor flap for total upper and lower lip reconstruction: a case report. J Med Case Reports 3:7312–16

    Article  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

  10. Devauchelle B, Badet L, Lengelé B et al (2006) First human face allograft: early report. Lancet 368(9531):203–209

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

Download references

Acknowledgments

We thank Miss Lydia Kerr, Naples FL, for revising the manuscript. We also thank Dr. Thomas Biesgen, Trier, and Dr. Michaela Hladik, Salzburg from Interplast-Germany for assisting in the first operations.

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of ENT, University Hospital Bonn-Venusberg, Sigmund-Freud-Str. 25, 53105, Bonn, Germany

    Arthur Charpentier

  2. Wolfsgangstr. 64, 60322 Frankfurt am Main, Germany

    Gottfried Lemperle

Authors
  1. Arthur Charpentier
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Gottfried Lemperle
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Gottfried Lemperle.

Ethics declarations

Ethical standards

For this type of study formal consent from a local ethics committee is not required.

Conflict of interest

Arthur Charpentier and Gottfried Lemperle declare that they have no conflict of interest.

Patient consent

The illiterate patients provided verbal consent to G.L. for the inclusion in this study and use of their images.

Funding

None.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this article

Charpentier, A., Lemperle, G. Simultaneous total upper and lower lip reconstruction during a humanitarian surgical mission to Africa. Eur J Plast Surg 40, 79–82 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00238-016-1232-4

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Accepted:

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00238-016-1232-4

Keywords

Search

Navigation