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From practice
From practiceElimination of a gunshot defect of the upper jaw using revascularised soft tissue-bone scapular transplant (clinical case)
M. V. Bulgakova (1), N. V. Kalakutskii (2), S. Ya. Chebotarev (2), O. Yu. Petropavlovskaya (2), M. G. Bulgakov (2)
(1) Clinical Hospital № 122 named after L. G. Sokolov, Saint Petersburg, Russia
(2) Federal State Budgetary Institution Higher Vocational Education “Pavlov First Saint Petersburg State Medical University” of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, Saint Petersburg, Russia
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.18692/1810-4800-2017-3-119-123
ABSTRACT
Under the present-day conditions (military operations in “flash points” and the local armed conflict areas) the number of wounded with extensive firearm injuries of maxillofacial area is constantly increasing. In the process of rehabilitation of this category of patients it is necessary to apply a multidisciplinary approach to treatment where a team of experts involved in the process of treatment will include, alongside with a maxillofacial surgeon, a. dental surgeon, a prosthodontist, an otorhinolaryngologist, an audiologist, an ophthalmologist, a neurologist and, where necessary, a neurosurgeon, an X-ray specialist and a nutritsiologist. This article presents a clinical case of successful treatment of a patient with a severe mine-blast injure sustained in a military conflict.
Publication date:
14.06.2017
Keywords:
lateral scapular graft, maxillary reconstruction. For citation:
Bulgakova M. V., Kalakutskii N. V., Chebotarev S. Ya., Petropavlovskaya O. Yu., Bulgakov M. G. Elimination of a gunshot defect of the upper jaw using revascularised soft tissue-bone scapular transplant (clinical case). Rossiiskaya otorinolaringologiya. 2017;3:119–123. https://doi.org/10.18692/1810-4800-2017-3-119-123