Comparison of Choosing Free ALT or Free PMT for Reconstruction With Head and Neck Cancer

Chang Gung Medical Foundation

Status: Completed

Conditions: Reconstructive Surgery; Head and Neck Cancer

Treatments: Other: ALT flap reconstruction; Other: AMT flap reconstruction

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04002713

201900308B0

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study was designed to compare the outcome of the anteromedial thigh (AMT) and anterolateral thigh (ALT) flaps in head and neck cancer reconstruction.

Full description

To compare the results of the AMT and ALT flaps, this study aimed to compare their outcomes in head and neck cancer reconstruction under the condition of attenuating baseline patient and operative characteristics with the selection of propensity score-matched patient cohorts.

Enrollment: 1,590 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 20 to 100 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients who underwent ALT or AMT free flap reconstruction after head and neck cancer surgery between March 1, 2008 and February 28, 2017.

Exclusion criteria

• Patients whose data were missing will be excluded.

Trial design

1,590 participants in 1 patient group

ALT&AMT free flap reconstruction

Description:

Patients who underwent ALT or AMT free flap reconstruction after head and neck cancer surgery between March 1, 2008 and February 28, 2017

Treatment:

Other: AMT flap reconstruction

Other: ALT flap reconstruction