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2. Flap (surgery) - Wikipedia

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   Flap surgery is a technique essential to plastic and reconstructive surgery.A flap is defined as tissue that can be moved to another site and has its own blood supply.This is in comparison to a skin graft which does not have its own blood supply and relies on vascularization from the recipient site. [2]

3. List of plastic surgery flaps - Wikipedia

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   Becker flap: Fasciocutaneous: Interpolation: Hand reconstruction Deep inferior epigastric perforator (DIEP) flap [3] Cutaneous: Free flap: Free flap breast reconstruction: Dufourmental flap: Cutaneous: Rotation/Transposition: Estlander flap: Cutaneous: Transposition: Labial commissure of mouth defects Fibular flap: Osteocutaneous: Free flap ...

4. Scalp reconstruction - Wikipedia

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   If local reconstruction is not possible due to lack of local tissue, regional reconstruction is the next rung on the reconstructive ladder. This includes pedicled flaps as the trapezius or supraclavicular flap or tissue expansion of nearby regions. Alternatively, the Crane principle, as described by Millard in 1969, can be used. A healthy part ...

5. Cheek reconstruction - Wikipedia

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   The advantages of this flap is that there is no need to skin graft the donor site and scars are placed at the natural skin folds. This flap is used for posterior and moderate-sized anterior cheek defects. Lower eyelid ectropion should be prevented, by minimizing tension and by overcorrection and suspension of the cheek flap to the lateral ...

6. Perforator flaps - Wikipedia

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   Perforator flap surgery is a technique used in reconstructive surgery where skin and/or subcutaneous fat are removed from a distant or adjacent part of the body to reconstruct the excised part. [1] The vessels that supply blood to the flap are isolated perforator(s) derived from a deep vascular system through the underlying muscle or ...

7. Plastic surgery chain Skin collapses amid funding crunch

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