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Vascularised fibula osteocutaneous flap for cervical spinal and posterior pharyngeal wall reconstruction Thankappan, Krishnakumar; Duarah, Sandip; Trivedi, Nirav P.; Panikar, Dilip; Kuriakose, Moni Abraham & Iyer, Subramania Abstract We report a case of vascularised fibula osteocutaneous flap used for composite cervical spinal and posterior pharyngeal wall reconstruction, in a patient with recurrent skull base chordoma, resected by an anterior approach via median labio-mandibular glossotomy approach. Bone stability and pharyngeal wall integrity were simultaneously restored Keywords Free fibula flap; head and neck reconstruction; cervical spinal reconstruction; skull base chordoma; mandibulotomy approach

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