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We read with interest the article by Dulguerov et al¹ on the prevention of Frey syndrome during parotidectomy, as well as Dr Kornblut's² comprehensive response. At University Hospital, Nottingham, England, we evaluated the use of a superiorly based sternocleidomastoid muscle flap rotated into surgical defects that resulted from superficial parotidectomy (benign neoplastic disease) in an attempt to reduce the patients' likelihood of experiencing postoperative Frey syndrome.³ Before completing this study, we reviewed the published literature on the association and treatments of Frey syndrome and parotid surgery⁴ and came to the conclusion that planned strategies to prevent the development of the syndrome at the time of surgery were more likely to be successful than attempts to treat the syndrome once it had become established.

In our study, we randomly selected 11 patients who had undergone superficial parotidectomy and 11 patients who had undergone superficial parotidectomy with a rotated superiorly based sternocleidomastoid . . . [Full Text of this Article]