Free-style free flap: Anterior thigh flap: Report of a case of subtotal glossectomy reconstruction
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Free-style free flap.
SUMMARY Advancements in microsurgical techniques as applied to perforator flaps have made harvesting flaps in a free-style manner a practical reality. A hand-held Doppler identifies sizable perforators on which flaps can be based. In free-style free flap harvesting, any region of the body can be chosen as a donor site as long as there is an audible pulsatile Doppler signal. The value of the fre...
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عنوان ژورنال: European Annals of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Diseases
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1879-7296
DOI: 10.1016/j.anorl.2015.11.007