Pre-expanded Super-Thin Skin Perforator Flaps

Publication date: January 2017
Source:Clinics in Plastic Surgery, Volume 44, Issue 1
Author(s): Chunmei Wang, Sifen Yang, Lee L.Q. Pu

Teaser

Patients with severe postburn scar contractures underwent reconstruction of skin defects after scar excision with pre-expanded super-thin skin perforator flaps supplied primarily by perforators via the "bridging effect" from the branches of the adjacent arteries as 2-stage procedures. Pre-expansion is an innovative technique and may improve the anastomoses between subdermal vascular plexuses and extend the supplying area of these vessels to the flap. Such a flap becomes super thin, but with a prefabricated blood supply it can be used for reconstruction of skin defects of the face, neck, or other body part with improved functional and cosmetic outcomes.


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