Journal•ISSN: 0007-1226
British Journal of Plastic Surgery
Elsevier BV
About: British Journal of Plastic Surgery is an academic journal. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Free flap & Transplantation. It has an ISSN identifier of 0007-1226. Over the lifetime, 5715 publications have been published receiving 136074 citations.
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TL;DR: The blood supply to the skin and underlying tissues was investigated by ink injection studies, dissection, perforator mapping and radiographic analysis of fresh cadavers and isolated limbs, giving rise to the angiosome concept.
1,467 citations
TL;DR: The thigh flap, with its large and long neuro-vascular pedicle, can be used either as a free flap or as an island flap as an alternative to the lower abdominal flap, groin flap, tensor fasciae latae myocutaneous flap, sartorius myocUTaneous flap or the gracilis myocutsaneous flap.
1,184 citations
TL;DR: An inferior epigastric artery skin flap without rectus abdominis muscle, pedicled on the muscle perforators and the proximal inferior deep epigASTric artery, have been used in two patients.
1,019 citations
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TL;DR: The fasciocutaneous flap is very useful in the repair of soft tissue defects on the lower leg because of the good circulation and the surgical technique is described.
663 citations