Table 1.

Basic demographic, disease and treatment data for 19 patients.

Case number	Gender	Age (year)	Pathology	TNM staging	Side of the LAFF	Recipient blood vessels	Estimated size of tumor (cm)
1	F	71	Papillary carcinoma, undifferentiated carcinoma of thyroid gland	T4bN1aM0	R	Not specified	7.5 × 8.0
2	F	77	Postauricular basal cell carcinoma	rT2N0M0	R	A: right superior thyroid.	2.8 × 1.8
						V: branch of right middle thyroid.
3	M	58	Tongue squamous cell carcinoma (SCC)	T3N1M0	L	A: left superior thyroid.	3.0 × 4.1
						V: left external jugular.
4	M	63	Hypopharyngeal poorly differentiated SCC	rT4bN0M0	L	A: facial.	3.5 × 3.6
						V: facial.
5	M	65	Tonsillar SCC	pT3N1M0	L	A: left superior thyroid.	4.0 × 3.8
						V: 2 branches of left superior thyroid.
6	F	60	Tracheal adenoid cystic carcinoma	T1N0M0	L	A: transverse cervical.	1.5 × 1.0
						V: transverse cervical.
7	M	33	Caustic esophagitis, esophageal stricture	/	L	A: left superior thyroid.	8.0 × 5.0
						V: 3 branches of external jugular.
8	M	55	Hypopharyngeal SCC	T3N2bM0	L	A: left superior thyroid.	N/A
						V: left external jugular (end-to-side).
9	M	86	Hypopharyngeal SCC	T3N0M0	L	A: left superior thyroid.	N/A
						V: left external jugular.
10	M	47	Tonsillar SCC	T2N0M0	L	A: right superior thyroid.	2.0 × 4.0
						V: right external jugular (end-to-side)
11	M	58	Hypopharyngeal SCC	T3N2cM0	L	A: left superior thyroid.	2.3 × 1.8
						V: left facial, left superior thyroid.
12	M	57	Tonsillar poorly differentiated SCC	pT3N2M0	L	A: right superior thyroid.	2.8 × 2.7
						V: branch of right facial and right external jugular.
13	M	49	Maxillary mucoepidermoid carcinoma	T4aN0M0	L	A: left superior thyroid.	2.0 × 1.5
						V: branch of left facial and left external jugular.
14	F	54	Tonsillar poorly differentiated SCC	T3N0M0	L	A: right superior thyroid.	3.1 × 2.7
						V: right facial.
15	M	69	Laryngeal/hypopharyngeal SCC	T1aN0M0; T3N0M0	L	A: left superior thyroid.	N/A
						V: branch of left facial.
16	M	62	Tracheal SCC	T1aN0M0	L	Not specified	N/A
17	M	55	Oropharyngeal SCC	T3N0M0	L	A: right superior thyroid.	0.7 × 3.0
						V: branch of right facial.
18	F	45	Postoperative esophago-cutaneous fistula	/	L	A: right transverse cervical.	8.0 × 5.0
						V: 2 branches of external jugular.
19	M	58	Hypopharyngeal SCC	T3N1M0	R	A: right superior thyroid.	5.0 × 6.0
						V: branch of left external jugular.