perforator flap

a free flap that is based on vessels that "perforate" or penetrate and traverse a muscle before piercing the fascia to reach the skin. Because the donor vessels have traversed muscle before reaching the fascia, a longer vascular pedicle can be dissected.
See also: fasciocutaneous flap.

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Reliable harvest of a dorsal scapular artery perforator flap by augmenting its perfusion.

Arterial Variations Within the Lateral Cervical Region: A Multidetector CT Angiography Study/Variaciones Arteriales en la Region Cervical Lateral: Estudio Angiografico por Tomografia Computarizada Multidetector

Shoulder function after harvesting a thoracodorsal artery perforator flap. Plast Reconstr Surg 2008; 122: 1111-1117.

The Effect of Mini-Latissimus Dorsi Flap (MLDF) Reconstruction on Shoulder Function in Breast Cancer Patients

The reverse thenar perforator flap has been used successfully for palmar resurfacing in Dupuytren's disease, trauma and burns.

A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF INSTEP GRAFT WITH FULL THICKNESS GRAFT IN DIGITAL VOLAR CONTRACTURES

Specific topics include free fibula flap for midface reconstruction, lower eyelid reconstruction with palatal grafts, free flap for hemi-tongue reconstruction, skate flap for nipple reconstruction, hernia repair with open component separation, superior gluteal artery perforator flap, the medial plantar flap, and pediatric facial reinaimation using a functional gracilis muscle transfer.

Flaps in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (online access included)

After removal of the breast cancer, tissue from the abdomen was harvested with its blood vessels and then transplanted onto vessels on the chest wall to create a new breast mound (free perforator flap) so that the patient went to sleep with a breast, had her cancer removed, and woke up with a new breast, in what is described as an 'immediate reconstruction'.

Keeping abreast: I lost my breast to cancer, but doctors gave me a new one

Our results of this novel technique are encouraging for future studies and trials in axial and perforator flap models.

Traction Vasculogenesis: Experimental Vessel Elongation by Traction in Rat Model

The proximal superficial femoral artery perforator flap: Anatomic study and clinical cases.

In vitro Flow Perfusion Maintaining Long-term Viability of the Rat Groin Fat Flap: A Novel Model for Research on Large-scale Engineered Tissues

Sullivan et al., "Nipple-Sparing Mastectomy and Ptosis: Perforator Flap Breast Reconstruction Allows Full Secondary Mastopexy with Complete Nipple Areolar Repositioning," Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, vol.

Single Stage Nipple-Sparing Mastectomy and Reduction Mastopexy in the Ptotic Breast

Haas et al., "Clinical experience with a tensor fasciae latae perforator flap based on septocutaneous perforators," Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive & Aesthetic Surgery, vol.

Clear Cell Adenocarcinoma Arising from Endometriosis in the Groin: Wide Resection and Reconstruction with a Fascia Lata Tensor Muscle Skin Flap

The soft tissue defect was then reconstructed with a free anterolateral thigh perforator flap taken from the patient's left thigh and revascularized to the patient's right internal mammary vessels (Figures 4 & 5).

Sternal chondrosarcoma: a surgical case report and special considerations for Perioperative Nursing

We describe a case that can be classified as a type I according to Vince and Miller [1] and area 5 according to Hastings II and Graham [3], with a history of double recurrence and a Darrach procedure [13] already performed, treated by synostosis resection and interposition with an adipofascial dorsoulnar artery (DUA) perforator flap.

The Dorsoulnar Artery Perforator Adipofascial Flap in the Treatment of Distal Radioulnar Synostosis

Therefore she underwent deep inferior epigastric perforator flap breast reconstruction at the department of plastic and reconstructive surgery.

Surgical treatment of pyoderma gangrenosum following deep inferior epigastric perforator flap breast reconstruction