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Reconstruction of concomitant total loss of the upper and lower lips with a free vertical rectus abdominis flap.

Jallali N, Malata CM

Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Addenbrooke's University Hospital, Cambridge, UK.

Total loss of both lips is fortunately rare as reconstruction of such defects poses an enormous challenge. We present a case of concomitant loss of both lips as a result of fulminant pneumococcal septicemia, which was reconstructed with a free vertical rectus abdominis myocutaneous flap due to lack of traditional donor sites.

Published 1 March 2005 in Microsurgery, 25(2): 118-20.
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