Reconstruction of the upper lip


 * Nasolabial transposition lobe or bilateral V-Y shift
 * for minor defects
 * Abbe's lobe
 * by twisting the tissue of the lower lip
 * Lateral shift
 * with the loss of around 40% of the upper lip, especially its lat. parts
 * "Zisser-Madden method" (lateral shift with removal of the lower lip triangle)
 * when central reconstruction is needed, lateral shift with bilateral perialar excisions is used
 * Karapandzic's method
 * Combination
 * in practice, it is most suitable to "combine" the previous methods of reconstruction
 * With complete loss of the upper lip:
 * tissue transfer through the bridging lobe from the neck (according to Tzura)
 * V- lobe from the forehead + hairline, supplied with branches of a.temporalis (according to Wilson)
 * both operations two-stage (lobe to the defect → acquires vascularization at the transfer site → detachment of the lobe)

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