The study included 23 patients with long-term facial paralysis due to VII nerve injury who underwent free gracilis muscle transplantation between 1997 and 1999 at Hospital 108. These patients were paralysed for 10 to 36 years. This technique uses free gracilis muscle to replace the paralysed facial skin-adhered muscle, concurrently recover the nervous transmission from normal side to paralysed side.
Facial Paralysis ; Transplantation ; therapeutics

The morbidity rate of cleft palate is relatively high (1/800). There are about 87500 children with disease. The plastic surgery for correction of cleft palate aims to early close the cleft, solve the functions of eating and drinking preventing from the shock and regulate the development of upper maxillary bone. 15 patients with nasal deformity due to the congenital cleft palate during 1996-1998 were received the plastic surgery for correction of nose-petal and nose-head by using transplants from the cartilage of the ear-rim. Results: the transplants from cartilage of the ear-rim are suitable for this operation. The ages of children are about 12-13 and above to assure the relatively complete development of cartilage frame and ear-rim and their size are the same as these in adults
Abnormalities ; Nasal Obstruction ; therapy ; surgery

The antherolateral thigh flap (ALT flap) was first detected and used in 1984 by Song and colleagues. Long, reliable vascular pedicle, large skin area (15x34cm), did not influence area where flap removed, had not to change patient’s position during the operation. 31 patients with of head and neck defects The in Chang Gung Memorial Hospital was reconstructed by using 31 ALT flaps after malignant tumors removed: cheek cancer (15cases), throat cancer (3 cases). Clinical result: survival flap rate was 96.6%; only one flap was necrosis completely (3.4%). The ALT flap can be harvested safely and easily to reconstruct the complicated defects of head and neck with only minimal donor-site lesions
Surgical Flaps ; Surgery