Experts for tongue cancer patients successfully "fill" the tongue

Experts for tongue cancer patients successfully "fill" the tongue

Experts for tongue cancer patients

Success "fill" the tongue

(Reporter correspondent Wang Hui Wang Fan) Yesterday, reporter learned from the Provincial Tumor Hospital, the hospital is a 58-year-old expert successful resection of tongue cancer tongue cancer patients with lesions, and use the patient's skin and blood vessels made ​​forearm flap, and defect tongue a "seamless" for its success "recycling" a complete tongue.

By the end of 2013, the left edge of the tongue of the patient began to fester, the long-term can not heal, ulcers and increasing the scope, affecting the food speak, hurried to the hospital, was diagnosed with well-differentiated squamous cell carcinoma of the tongue. Recently, patients with head and neck Thyroid Cancer Hospital to the provincial department for treatment.

In order to protect the quality of life of patients, the hospital experts "two-pronged" operation, all the way to complete the combined radical surgery in patients with left tongue, tongue resection and left common carotid four regional functional dissection; the other way is to take the patient's left forearm flap, after the defects were seamless tongue, then go under a flap from the patient's abdomen "fill" in the arm, the abdomen defect suture. The whole operation lasted six hours, only flap arteriovenous anastomosis to spend more than one hour. Currently, the patient recovered well, you can eat like a normal person, speak.

Head and Neck Cancer Hospital thyroid specialist Province Qi Venus reminder, prevention of oral ulcers, usually should pay attention to maintaining oral hygiene, common gargle with salt water, refrain from smoking, and living a regular, to ensure adequate sleep. Normal oral ulcers more in about 7 to 10 days to heal, if no improvement trend continued two weeks or more, wound cauliflower-like protuberances or are irregular white shape, with pain or numbness, it is timely to find a specialist for treatment.