Pre-expanded Super-Thin Skin Perforator Flaps

Chunmei Wang; Sifen Yang; Lee Li-Qun Pu

doi:10.1016/j.cps.2016.08.008

Pre-expanded Super-Thin Skin Perforator Flaps

Chunmei Wang, Sifen Yang, Lee Li-Qun Pu

Plastic Surgery and Reconstruction

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Abstract

Patients with severe postburn scar contractures underwent reconstruction of skin defects after scar excision with pre-expanded super-thin skin perforator flaps supplied primarily by perforators via the “bridging effect” from the branches of the adjacent arteries as 2-stage procedures. Pre-expansion is an innovative technique and may improve the anastomoses between subdermal vascular plexuses and extend the supplying area of these vessels to the flap. Such a flap becomes super thin, but with a prefabricated blood supply it can be used for reconstruction of skin defects of the face, neck, or other body part with improved functional and cosmetic outcomes.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	31-40
Number of pages	10
Journal	Clinics in Plastic Surgery
Volume	44
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cps.2016.08.008
State	Published - Jan 1 2017

Keywords

Crossing-area blood supply
Perforator flaps
Pre-expansion
Pre-fabrication
Skin flaps
Super-thin flaps

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Surgery

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