Abstract
The major purposes of reconstructive surgery in the head and neck regions are cos-metic repair of a large tissue defect caused by tumor extirpation in patients with ma-lignancies and early come-back to social activity.
Recently the new method of the pectoralis major musculocutaneous flap developed by Ariyan has been frequently used for the surgery of the head and neck regions.
Since July 1980, using this method we have operated nine cases of the tongue and oral cancers, six patients with the cervical esophagus cancers and five other cases.
All cases had complete repair by this technique for a while.
The operative method and its efficiency were described in this paper.
