Treatment of lower lip cancer: an experience of 48 cases

The article reports results obtained in 48 cases of lower lip cancer.Tumor classified as T1 or T2, requiring a resection up to 60% of the lower lip,were treated with the stair-case technique. Nine patients were treated with thebilateral symmetrical stair-case technique since their lesions were locatedmedially, while 23 were treated with the bilateral method using two asymmetricalflaps because their lesions were in paramedian position but larger than 2 cm. Tenpatients required a unilateral flap.The cases classified as T3, in which the lesion required resection of more than60% of the lip, were treated with the Bernard–Freeman–Fries technique.