Efficacy of Locoregional Perforator Flaps for Resurfacing of Peri-ankle Soft Tissue Defects: A Single Centre Prospective Cohort Study [PDF]
Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2023 Introduction: The foot and ankle serve as vital components in supporting mobility. When afflicted by trauma, infections, burns, or tumours, they often present challenging defects that expose tendons, bones, joints, and nerves.
Priti Upadhyay, Sandip Basu
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Where to find facial artery perforators: a reference point [PDF]
, 2010 Reconstructive surgery of the midface using facial artery perforator (FAP) flaps is being used more frequently now as it has been reported to provide better aesthetic results and reduce a traditional two-stage procedure to a one-stage technique.
Fogg, Q., Ng, Z.Y., Shoaib, T.
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Safe and easy way to reconstruct pressure ulcers: Gluteal artery perforator flaps
Turkish Journal of Plastic Surgery, 2019 Introduction: Pressure ulcers continue to be a reconstructive challenge due to the growing number of patients under risk. Frail nature of the affected patient makes this problem even more complicated.
Burak Yasar +5 more
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Archives of Plastic Surgery, 2021 Background Despite the wide demand for thin flaps for various types of extremity reconstruction, the thin elevation technique for anterolateral thigh (ALT) flaps is not very popular because of its technical difficulty and safety concerns.
Young Chul Suh +4 more
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Shaping the Breast in Aesthetic and Reconstructive Breast Surgery: An Easy Three-Step Principle. Part II - Breast Reconstruction after Total Mastectomy [PDF]
, 2009 This is Part II of four parts describing the three-step principle being applied in reconstructive and aesthetic breast surgery. Part I explains how to analyze a problematic breast by understanding the main anatomical features of a breast and how they ...
Blondeel, Phillip +4 more
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Predictive and Protective Factors for Partial Necrosis in DIEP Flap Breast Reconstruction. Does Nulliparity Bias Flap Viability? [PDF]
, 2015 Although success rate of deep inferior epigastric perforator (DIEP) flap breast reconstruction has greatly improved, complications still occasionally occur.
Barbara, Cagli +5 more
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Perforator flaps in the hand [PDF]
BMC Proceedings, 2015 The need for an appropriate flap cover to protect vital structures, restore and preserve function and aesthetics of the hand following tissue loss remains a challenge to the reconstructive hand surgeon. Following the description of the angiosome concept by Taylor and Palmer and the pioneering work of authors such as Koshima & Soeda, Kroll, and ...
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Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Global Open, 2019 Background:. Although indocyanine-green fluorescence angiography (ICG-FA) has been established as a useful tool to assess perfusion in free tissue transfer, only few studies have applied this modality to pedicled perforator flaps.
Rafael G. Jakubietz, MD +4 more
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Trends in immediate postmastectomy breast reconstruction in the United Kingdom [PDF]
, 2015 The study aimed to evaluate local and national trends in immediate breast reconstruction (IBR) using the national English administrative records, Hospital Episode Statistics.
Athanasiou, Thanos +9 more
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The Impact of Perforator Number on Deep Inferior Epigastric Perforator Flap Breast Reconstruction
Archives of Plastic Surgery, 2014 BackgroundPerforator flaps minimize abdominal site morbidity during autologous breast reconstruction. The purpose of this study was to assess whether the number of perforators harvested influences the overall deep inferior epigastric perforator (DIEP ...
Ritwik Grover +5 more
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