Plastic Surgery Key

Cervical Skin Flaps to The Cheek V. Y. BAKAMJIAN See Chapters 120 and 122. The same cervical skin flaps as are described for intraoral lining can be used to cover…

Slide-Swing Skin Flap J. SCHRUDDE V. PETROVICI The slide-swing skin flap combines the principle of transposition with skin sliding. It can be used to close large, round defects with a…

Lateral Cheek and Posterior Auricular Transposition Flap R. O. DINGMAN G. H. DERMAN EDITORIAL COMMENT An alternative to the procedure diagrammed in Figure 111.1 would be to continue the incision…

Postauricular and Retroauricular Scalping Flap (The Paras Flap) A. D. DIAS P. CHHAJLANI EDITORIAL COMMENT This would not be the editors’ first choice for donor tissue material, although the flap…

Galeal Flaps J. M. PSILLAKIS J. AVELAR J. PERSSONELLI EDITORIAL COMMENT This flap is based on the same principle as the temporoparietal fascial flap. Galea can be included when a…

Superficial Temporal Artery Forehead and Scalp Flaps I. K. DHAWAN EDITORIAL COMMENT This location was the site of probably one of the earliest free flaps that was transposed using the…

Bilaterally Pedicled V-Y Advancement Flap L. PONTES M. RIBEIRO EDITORIAL COMMENT A modification of the V-Y flap that allows greater mobility of the flap. The bilaterally pedicled V-Y advancement flap,…

Bilobar and Trilobar Forehead and Scalp Flaps M. NARAYANAN Immediate reconstruction of head and neck defects resulting from excisions of huge cancers is a unique procedure in plastic surgery. The…

Forehead Skin Flaps J. S. P. WILSON N. M. BREACH EDITORIAL COMMENT Historically, the forehead flap is one of the first axial flaps described, and it achieved enormous importance in…

Nasolabial Skin Flaps to The Cheek H. OHTSUKA EDITORIAL COMMENT In treating defects of the face, the possibility of primary closure and even the use of split- or full-thickness skin…