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Abstract
Reconstruction of the tongue is seldom required. The settings for the application
of the method presented here will fortunately be very few. We believe it worth presenting,
however, as a guidepost to those who may be confronted with a similar desperate situation,
regardless of how it may have come about. In our case, it has resulted in immeasurable
improvement in function because it restored two important movements to the tongue,
(1) apposition with the hard palate and (2) apposition with the central incisors.
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References
- Lymphangioma of the tongue (treatment and appraisal of long-term results).Arch. Surg. 1960; 81: 761
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© 1965 Published by Elsevier Inc.
