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Nine days after surgery, the patient showed a cervical abscess.
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Nine days after surgery, the patient developed a cervical abscess (Fig. 1) which was drained, rinsed with povidone, filled with AquaCell , and superposed by a compression bandage.
Three weeks after surgery, the cervical wound was clean but atonic, with exposure of the underlying sternocleidomastoid muscle.
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By the end of the first week, the cervical wound was clean, but the wound borders remained atonic with exposure of the sternocleidomastoid muscle, without adhesion from the cutaneous plan to the deep plan (Fig. 2).
One month after surgery the wound remained atonic.
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A month after the operation, the wound remained atonic as shown in Fig. 3.
Five days after L-PRF filling, the subcutaneous tissues were clinically adhering to the deep planes in both wounds.
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Five days after the L-PRF filling (Fig. 4), the subcutaneous tissues were clinically adhering to the deep planes in both wounds.
Complete wound healing eighteen months after surgery.
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After a close observation of fifteen days, complete wound healing was observed allowing the initiation of postoperative radiotherapy (Fig. 5).