The Past, Present, and Future of Perforator Flaps in Head and Neck Surgery.
Oral Maxillofac Surg Clin North Am
; 2024 Aug 13.
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in En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-39142948
ABSTRACT
A perforator is a vessel that travels through muscle and perfuses the skin. Perforator flaps require intramuscular dissection and can be used as pedicled or free flap. With improved understanding of microvasculature, they can be tailored to have multiple skin paddles, multiple components, or shaped to conform to any defect. Reliable perforator flap-based reconstruction is a meticulous microvascular technique, ultimately allowing the surgeon to harvest any flap in a freestyle fashion and transplant to any recipient vessel. New technologies improve the safety and reproducibility of this type of reconstruction.
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MEDLINE
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En
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Oral Maxillofac Surg Clin North Am
Journal subject:
ODONTOLOGIA
Year:
2024
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Article
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