Rhomboid flaps are frequently used in facial reconstruction to repair rhombus-shaped defects. The aesthetic and mechanical properties of these flaps make them especially useful for reconstruction of defects on the cheek, temple, lips, nose, and eyelids. Rhomboid flaps are full-thickness cutaneous local flaps with a random blood supply; they rely on the dermal–subdermal plexus of blood vessels. ...

A skillfully applied thenar flap is an excellent method of restoring major distal soft tissue losses of fingers. It not only provides full-thickness skin of near perfect tissue match but also is the only local flap with sufficient subcutaneous tissues to restore adequately the lost finger pulp. Its recovery of sensibility yields good function, it does not hyperpigment, and the donor site is on ...

Nose is one of the most important aesthetic unit of the face.Management of nasal trauma plays a significant role in the practices of the majority of facial and reconstructive surgeons. Replantation, although technically very challenging, is undoubtedly the procedure of choice following traumatic nasal amputation. Here we present an illustrative case report of the traumatic amputation of a nasal...

SUMMARY A 26-year-old woman sustained a traffic accident injury to her left medial malleolus. A soft-tissue defect 15 × 7 cm with exposure of bone was found and underwent free anterolateral thigh flap to cover it. On the second postoperative day, venous congestion occurred and re-exploration was performed. Re-anastomosis of the vein was done after the thrombectomy; unfortunately, the flap did n...

STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM Gingival recession has been considered as the most challenging issue in the field of periodontal plastic surgery. PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to evaluate the clinical efficacy of root coverage procedures by using partial thickness double pedicle graft and compare it with full thickness double pedicle graft. MATERIALS AND METHOD Eight patients, aged 15 to 5...

Full thickness skin loss in the lower extremity presents special difficulties to the surgeon and his patient. Soft tissue in juxtaposition to the wound is usually remarkably thin and poorly vascularized. Moreover, the base of the wound very often is exposed, dead, infected bone. These chronic, persistent, economically debilitative ulcerations, traumatic, vascular, metabolic, or infectious in or...

The paper presents our approach to reconstruction after periocular basalioma (pBCC) excision, especially of large lower lid (LL) and medial canthal (MC) pBCC. Retrospective analysis of data of 123 patients with pBCC, confirmed on histologic examination (HE), operated in period from 1998 to 2006, was performed. Oncologic safety margins of 3 mm were marked after local anesthesia was administered....

BACKGROUND Various techniques have been proposed for reconstruction of the eyelid anterior lamella after carcinoma excision: among these are the transposition of skin flaps, and full-thickness skin grafts or combination of these two. AIM To present our experience in eyelid reconstruction with full-thickness skin grafts and to assess the aesthetic and functional outcomes. PATIENTS AND METHOD...

introduction: the purpose of this study is to evaluated the effect of low power laser on the survival of a skin flap on the dorsum of the rats. materials and methods: fifty male rats were divided into five groups. the surgery was done under general anesthesia where a full thickness skin flap (including panniculus carnosus) from the dorsum of the rats were randomly dissected. the flap size was 2...

Recently, new femtosecond laser platforms have been developed to perform both corneal LASIK flaps and femtosecond laser-assisted cataract surgery. For this reason, we read with great interest the article by Juhasz et al.,1 which was the first study to evaluate the visual outcomes and flap thickness accuracy of the new LenSx multifunctional femtosecond laser system (Alcon Laboratories, Fort Wort...