Capillary malformations (CMs) and Lymphatic malformations (LMs) are vascular malformations that share a common tendency to cause soft and hard tissue hypertrophy, expressed in the three dimensions of the space. The middle third of the face is the most commonly involved area, with a predominance of the upper lip. To our knowledge, no paper has previously focused on the surgical technique to correct such deformities. We propose and illustrate a surgical protocol, consisting in merging an asymmetric bikini upper lip reduction and a unilateral bull horn resection technique, that allowed to reduce the overall volume of the hypertrophied lip thus restoring lip symmetry. We adopted this technique in 2 patients affected by CMs and 4 patients with LMs, with satisfactory results.
Surgical correction of hypertrophic upper lip in vascular malformations / M. Dessy, G. Colletti, A. Dionisio, C. Liberale, F. Biglioli. - In: JOURNAL OF CRANIO-MAXILLOFACIAL SURGERY. - ISSN 1010-5182. - 46:10(2018 Oct), pp. 1790-1792. [10.1016/j.jcms.2018.07.023]
Surgical correction of hypertrophic upper lip in vascular malformations
G. Colletti
;F. Biglioli
2018
Abstract
Capillary malformations (CMs) and Lymphatic malformations (LMs) are vascular malformations that share a common tendency to cause soft and hard tissue hypertrophy, expressed in the three dimensions of the space. The middle third of the face is the most commonly involved area, with a predominance of the upper lip. To our knowledge, no paper has previously focused on the surgical technique to correct such deformities. We propose and illustrate a surgical protocol, consisting in merging an asymmetric bikini upper lip reduction and a unilateral bull horn resection technique, that allowed to reduce the overall volume of the hypertrophied lip thus restoring lip symmetry. We adopted this technique in 2 patients affected by CMs and 4 patients with LMs, with satisfactory results.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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