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Customized prefabricated neovascularized free flaps
Author(s) -
Hirase Yuichi,
Valauri Fredrick A.,
Buncke Harry J.,
Newlin Leonard Y.
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
microsurgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.031
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1098-2752
pISSN - 0738-1085
DOI - 10.1002/micr.1920080410
Subject(s) - medicine , free flap , neovascularization , microsurgery , surgery , anatomy , angiogenesis
Neovascularization of tissues into which a vascular pedicle has been implanted can result in the creation of a flap, or free flap, which is supported by those vessels as a neopedicle. This phenomenon allows the construction of customized prefabricated free flaps from tissue without restriction to naturally occurring vascular territories.