04/09/2020
Casereport:
The patient was a 66-year-old man with squamous cell carcinoma of the middle side of mouth floor. TNM stage was T1N0M0, Stage I. The leukoplakia surrounding the tumor was observed. A tumorectomy of mouth floor was performed (a) and STS (split-thickness skin) harvested from the anterior upper thigh was grafted (b). A medicated gauze was used to compress the grafted skin during postoperative 7 days. The grafted skin over the lower alveolar bone was yet weak and the patient was fed through a nasal tube during postoperative 10 days before oral intake started. Intraoral photograph was displayed at the point of postoperative 1 year (c). Tongue movement was almost the same as the preoperative motion.