Complicated pharyngocutaneous fistula repair after head and neck cancer surgery: a case series of 7 patients.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To retrospectively analyze the repair of seven cases of complicated pharyngocutaneous fistula (PCF) to provide a reference for the treatment of complicated PCF.

Methods

We retrospectively analyzed the clinical data of seven patients with complicated PCF from February 2017 to December 2021, including six males and one female, with a history of neck radiotherapy in two cases. The range of PCF mucosal defects was 1.0 cm × 2.0-5.0 cm × 7.0 cm. A pedicled flap or free flap was chosen for repair depending on the site and size of the defect. A total of eight flaps were used to repair complicated PCF defects.

Results

One of the seven patients healed after conservative treatment. Among the five patients who underwent pedicled flap repair, three had first-intention he

SUBMITTER: Zhou W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12512706 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature