Porcine Urinary Bladder Extracellular Matrix for the Salvage of Fibula Free Flap Skin Paddle: Technical Note and Description of a Case

Abstract

This report establishes a novel application of a commercially available porcine urinary bladder extracellular matrix, MatriStem (ACell, Inc., Columbia, MD), in the salvage of partial loss of the skin paddle of a fibula osteoseptocutaneous free flap that was utilized for mandibular reconstruction.