The use of a local island flap, designed with retroauricular skin, is an excellent, simple, and reproducible innovation to the classic microtia ear reconstruction, allowing adequate coverage of the cartilage framework, ...

The use of the frontalis musculocutaneous flap as a pedicle island flap offers some advantages in frontal reconstruction. It can be used for immediate reconstruction following the ablation of a small or moderate area, even ...

The use of the frontalis musculocutaneous flap as a pedicle island flap offers some advantages in frontal reconstruction. It can be used for immediate reconstruction following the ablation of a small or moderate area, even ...

Background. Ischemia-reperfusion injury is believed to be a major cause of transferred skin flap failure. Cigarette smoking is known to be associated with endogenous antioxidant depletion, hypercoagulability, and cutaneous ...

We analysed the records of 25 patients who had their upper lips reconstructed after resection of a tumour. All the repairs were done with triangular Cutaneous and musculocanteous flaps With a Skill island with V-Y advancement, ...

Many studies on defects caused by trauma, infection, cancer, or congenital are reported in the literature; in nasal reconstructions, contradictions and distinct techniques exist that can be argued. Using the literature, ...

Many studies on defects caused by trauma, infection, cancer, or congenital are reported in the literature; in nasal reconstructions, contradictions and distinct techniques exist that can be argued. Using the literature, ...

The supraclavicular island flap has been widely used in head and neck reconstruction, providing an alternative to the traditional techniques like regional or free flaps, mainly because of its thin skin island tissue and ...