<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><xml><records><record><source-app name="HighWire" version="7.x">Drupal-HighWire</source-app><ref-type name="Journal Article">17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Zhao, Yuanqing</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Guo, Jialiang</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Li, Yongtuan</style></author></authors><secondary-authors></secondary-authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Clinical Research of a Modified Midfacial Degloving in a Maxillectomy (with a Report of a Typical Case)</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Chinese Journal of Clinical Oncology</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2008</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2008-06-01 00:00:00</style></date></pub-dates></dates><pages><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">191-194</style></pages><doi><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">10.1007/s11805-008-0191-3</style></doi><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">5</style></volume><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">3</style></issue><abstract><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">OBJECTIVE To investigate the feasibility of employing a modified midfacial degloving in maxillectomy.METHODS Eight patients with carcinoma of the maxillary sinus underwent a modified midfacial degloving operation. The tumors were classified according to the 2002 AJCC system. The TNM staging of the cases was as follows: 1 T4aN0M0, 2 T3N0M0 and 5 T2N0M0. Of the 8 cases, 1 patient underwent extended maxillectomy; exenteration of the orbit; tumorectomy of the sphenomaxillary and infratemporal fossae. Two patients received a total maxillectomy, and 5 a partial resection of the maxilla. Postoperative pathological report: 4 well-differentiated squamous carcinoma, 2 moderately-differentiated squamous carcinoma, 1 mucoepidermoid carcinoma and 1 adenoid cystic carcinoma.RESULTS A modified midfacial degloving operation can sufficiently expose a field of operation, resect the tumor within a safe margin, and leave no facial cicatricles. One patient died of intracranial metastasis 8 months after operation. We observed no recurrences or metastasis in other patients during the period of follow-up.CONCLUSION The major advantages of employing the modified midfacial degloving in maxillectomy is that a facial incision can be avoided. It has an advantage of minimal invasive surgery.</style></abstract></record></records></xml>