Oral submucous fibrosis is a chronic, debilitating disease characterized by gradually increasing fibrosis of oral cavity and pharynx, mainly the buccal mucosa, resulting in trismus. Various flaps have been used to reconstruct the surgical defects following excision of fibrous bands. It is inevitable to prevent these flaps from trauma by occlusion. The main objective of the authors is to introduce a technical innovation used to protect the flaps in the post-operative period. Here, we propose an easy and economical method to protect the flaps.
Bilateral Temporomandibular Joints ankylosis brings extensive limitations on the patient quality of life. Surgical treatment is frequently necessary associated with a continuous rehabilitation. To avoid iatrogenic injuries and potential complications, anatomy of this region, must be thoroughly known by operating surgeon.
Abstract- Fibrosarcomas are rare but highly fulminant and aggressively malignant neoplasm whichoccurs as a result of mutated spindle-shaped fibroblasts. According to WHO, they are soft tissuesarcoma commonly present seldom at cutis. The etiology of such a malignancy is obscurednevertheless it has several predisposing factors like pre-existing pathology but the commonest ofthem is radiation. Mesenchymal malignancies were initially over-diagnosed and were the epicenter ofdiagnostic dilemma to the pathologist, but with the advent of Vimentin staining andimmunohistochemistry, the diagnostic front has fairly advanced for fibrosarcomas. Incidence ofFibrosarcoma in Maxilla accounts for less than 0.1%, when compared to other head and neckmalignancies, and is predominantly found between 2nd to 6th decades of life. Various approacheshave been documented in the literature regarding its treatment, but aggressive surgical excisionremains the mainstay of treating Fibrosarcomas. The role of adjuvant medicinal therapies have beenwell debated but do have a conclusive outcome. Through this article, we want to highlight anddocument a case, which occurred at an exceptionally young age, at a site that had no predisposingfactors but has proven immunohistochemical diagnosis and was rapidly fulminating and aggressivelymalignant. The preoperative diagnosis of the patient was inconclusive reporting it to be amesenchymal tumor, therefore, the patient was treated with the intraoral approach for wide surgicalresection. The surgical specimen was subjected to immunohistochemistry with Vimentin stainingwhich reported it to be a Fibrosarcomas, therefore the patient was advised chemotherapy, yet theprognosis is guarded.
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