1 Jan 2002Review
An active intervention on flap vasculature: flap prefabrication by pedicle implantation, delay, pre-expansion, pre-grafting, tissue engineering, biomaterials and perforators surgery
M.R. Colonna 1L. Teot 2U.M. Giovannini 2F. Quatra 1F. d’Alcontres 1
Affiliations
Article Info
1 Divisione di Chirurgia Plastica Ricostruttiva, Università di Messina,Service de Grands Brulées, CHRU, Montpellier, France
2 Divisione di Chirurgia Plastica Ricostruttiva, Università di,Messina
Ann. Ital. Chir., 2002, 73(1), 71-74;
Published: 1 Jan 2002
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Abstract
The technology of flap prefabrications is a new, powerful tool in plastic and reconstructive surgery. It is based on an old idea, while applying the latest innovations in surgery. It involves any modification of a surgical flap done before its transfer to the final donor site, including surgical delay, pre-expansion, pre-grafting, the use of tissue engineering, biomaterials and perforators surgery, or the creation of a new pedicle by staged transfer of a vascular bundle. The different possibilities are discussed, with special reference to their biologic basis
Keywords
- Microsurgery
- surgical flaps
- cytokines