Over the past two decades, with the introduction of the perforator flap concept and advances in flap dissections, lower extremities have emerged as the preferred soft tissue flap donor sites. As a modern and high-volume microsurgical center, and the senior author being one of the pioneers and advocates for the use of lower extremity flap donor sites, we aim to investigate the role of latissimus dorsi (LD) free flap in head and neck reconstruction within our current practice.
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