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DOUBLE ROTATION SKIN CLOSURE: AN ALTERNATIVE TO ELLIPTICIAL CLOSURE
Author(s) -
ROBBINS THOMAS H.
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.111
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1445-2197
pISSN - 0004-8682
DOI - 10.1111/j.1445-2197.1978.tb04922.x
Subject(s) - medicine , closure (psychology) , rotation (mathematics) , simple (philosophy) , rotation flap , wound closure , surgery , geometry , law , wound healing , philosophy , mathematics , epistemology , political science
A simple method of closure of circular skin defects is presented. Even for small defects it is often appropriate on occasions when elliptical excision is either not possible or inferior.