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Surgical Flaps

Known as: Reconstructive Flap, Flap, Surgical, Flap Transplant 
Tongues of skin and subcutaneous tissue, sometimes including muscle, cut away from the underlying parts but often still attached at one end. They… 
National Institutes of Health

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Blood supply aspectsFasciocutaneous flap of trunkFree flapFrontal sinusotomy, nonobliterative with osteoplastic flap by coronal approach

Narrower (3)

Island flap proceduresPedicled FlapTooth extraction with elevation of mucoperiosteal flap

Broader (2)

Plastic Surgical ProceduresSurgically-Created Structures

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Highly Cited
2000
Highly Cited
2000
Reverse Fasciosubcutaneous Flap Versus Distally Pedicled Sural Island Flap: Two Elective Methods for Distal‐Third Leg Reconstruction
&; In case of soft‐tissue injury to the distal third of the leg, a safe and effective repair technique should be adopted. The use… 
Highly Cited
1998
Highly Cited
1998
Development of the X-33 Aerodynamic Uncertainty Model
ABSTRACT An aerodynamic uncertainty model for the X-33 single-stage-to-orbit demonstrator aircraft has beendeveloped at NASA… 
Highly Cited
1987
Highly Cited
1987
Latissimus Dorsi Free Flaps for Total Repair of Extensive Lower Leg Injuries in Children
A well-established belief is that with crushed and contaminated wounds closure should be delayed. However, an emergency procedure… 
Highly Cited
1986
Highly Cited
1986
Improved Survival of Island Flaps after Prolonged Ischemia by Perfusion with Superoxide Dismutase
Perfusion of rat groin flaps after 10 and 11 hours of complete ischemia with superoxide dismutase, an oxygen free-radical… 
Highly Cited
1986
Highly Cited
1986
The Dorsalis Pedis Free Flap: Technique of Elevation, Foot Closure, and Flap Application
The dorsalis pedis free flap is an excellent reconstructive tool for thin remote mucosal defects, for heel and hand defects where… 
Highly Cited
1983
Highly Cited
1983
Surface Quantification of Injected Fluorescein as a Predictor of Flap Viability
In a laboratory model, quantitative skin-surface fluorescence has been used to reliably measure skin perfusion in ischemic random… 
1981
1981
Modification of the one-stage flip-flap procedure to repair distal penile hypospadias.
Highly Cited
1977
Highly Cited
1977
Thumb reconstruction by digital transposition.
In traumatic loss or congenital aplasia of the thumb, transposition of a digit on its neurovascular pedicle is the preferable… 
1970
1970
Sympathetic denervation and reinnervation of cutaneous blood vessels following surgery. An experimental study on rats by means of a histochemical fluorescence method.
With the histochemical technique of Falck and Hillarp the adrenergically innervated structures of the skin were examined in rats… 
Highly Cited
1963
Highly Cited
1963
AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF LARGE ISLAND FLAPS IN DOGS