Functional and Aesthetic Outcomes After Mandible Reconstruction With Fibula Osteomyocutaneous Free Flaps

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Head and Neck Cancer

Treatments: Other: physical exam; Behavioral: questionnaires

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02572869

15-244

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to assess the functional and esthetic outcomes in patients who had removal of a part of the lower jaw bone due to mouth cancer and reconstruction of the jaw bone with a bone ( fibula) from the leg at MSKCC between the years 1987 to 2014.

Enrollment: 26 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 25 to 80 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Able to read and write in the English language
• Patients who underwent segmental mandibulectomy and free fibular flap reconstruction at MSK between 1987 and 2014
• Able to travel to the MSK outpatient clinic or have access to email, the MSK patient portal and a computer with a camera for the follow up examination by a physician and completion of the questionnaires.

Exclusion criteria

• Patients who underwent marginal mandibulectomy
• Patients who underwent mandibular reconstruction with a different type of vascularized bone free flap
• Patients who underwent mandibular reconstruction with soft tissue free flap

Trial design

26 participants in 1 patient group

segmental mandibulectomy and free fibular flap reconstruction

Description:

Patients who underwent segmental mandibulectomy and free fibular flap reconstruction at MSK between 1987 and 2014

Treatment:

Other: physical exam

Behavioral: questionnaires