Mount Sinai Otolaryngology Surgical Series: Scapular Tip Free Flap Harvest

Mount Sinai Otolaryngology Surgical Series: Scapular Tip Free Flap Harvest

In this video, Mount Sinai head and neck cancer surgeons perform a scapular tip free flap to reconstruct a large soft tissue defect of the head and neck after removing a large, cancerous tumor. Free flaps are pieces of tissue from a patient’s own body taken with a specific artery and vein that are then connected, or anastomosed to vessels in the patients head and neck. The scapular tip free flap is rather versatile and can be used to reconstruct a variety of areas including the mandible or midface when bone is needed. Mount Sinai is one of the largest head and neck cancer centers in the United States and routinely performs hundreds of free flaps. For smaller tumors of the throat, Mount Sinai is able to offer patients transoral robotic surgery, a minimally invasive approach.

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https://www.mountsinai.org/locations/head-neck-institute

 

Featured Faculty 

Eric M. Genden, MD, MHCA, FACS
Dr. Isidore Friesner Professor and Chair of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery
Senior Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs
Professor of Neurosurgery and Immunology
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Director, Head and Neck Institute-Center of Excellence for Head and Neck Cancer
Mount Sinai Health System

Michael Berger, MD
Assistant Professor, Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery
Division of Otology-Neurotology, Lateral Skull Base Surgery
Mount Sinai Health System

Raymond L. Chai, MD
Associate Professor, Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery
Mount Sinai Health System

Mohemmed Nazir Khan, MD
Assistant Professor, Department of Otolaryngology
Mount Sinai Union Square

Diana N. Kirke, MD
Assistant Professor, Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery
The Mount Sinai Hospital

Scott Allan Roof, MD
Assistant Professor, Head and Neck Surgery
Mount Sinai Health System

Marita S. Teng, MD
Professor, Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery
Mount Sinai Health System

Mark Urken, MD
Chief, Division of Head and Neck Surgical Oncology,
Co-Director, Institute for Head and Neck and Thyroid Cancer,
Department of Otolaryngology, Mount Sinai Union Square
Mount Sinai Health System

Zachary G. Schwam, MD
Assistant Professor, Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery
Division of Otology-Neurotology, Lateral Skull Base Surgery
Mount Sinai Health System


Published

June 30, 2023

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