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Abstract
Tongues of skin and subcutaneous tissue, sometimes including muscle, cut away from the underlying parts but often still attached at one end. They retain their own microvasculature which is also transferred to the new site. They are often used in plastic surgery for filling a defect in a neighboring region.
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- Flap, Surgical
- Flaps, Surgical
- Surgical Flap
- Island Flap
- Island Flaps
- Pedicled Flap
- Flap, Island
- Flap, Pedicled
- Flaps, Island
- Flaps, Pedicled
- Pedicled Flaps
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Indexed with the subheadings adverse effects, blood supply, classification, economics, ethics, history, immunology, innervation, microbiology, parasitology, pathology, physiology, standards, statistics & numerical data, supply & distribution, surgery, transplantation, trends, veterinary, virology.
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includes skin & muscle tissue but do not specify site or tissue unless particularly discussed; do not coordinate with TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS
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- Skin (1966-1979)
- Surgery, Plastic (1966-1979)
- Transplantation, Autologous (1966-1979)
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Surgical Flaps. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D013524. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D013524
- Surgical Flaps. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flap_(surgery)
- Surgical Flaps. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2142843