Surgical Flaps
"Surgical Flaps" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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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.
| Descriptor ID |
D013524
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| MeSH Number(s) |
A10.850.710 E07.862.710
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| Concept/Terms |
Surgical Flaps- Surgical Flaps
- Surgical Flap
- Flap, Surgical
- Flaps, Surgical
Pedicled Flap- Pedicled Flap
- Flap, Pedicled
- Flaps, Pedicled
- Pedicled Flaps
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1999 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2009 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2011 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Surgical Flaps" by people in Profiles.
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Barron DJ, Jones TJ, Brawn WJ. The Senning procedure as part of the double-switch operations for congenitally corrected transposition of the great arteries. Semin Thorac Cardiovasc Surg Pediatr Card Surg Annu. 2011; 14(1):109-15.
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Wong DS, Chiu TW, Wong GK, Zhu XL, Kwok MW, Ho CM, Burd AD. Epithelioid haemangioendothelioma of the anterior skull base: what is the optimal treatment? Hong Kong Med J. 2009 Aug; 15(4):308-10.
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Oshika T, Klyce SD, Applegate RA, Howland HC, El Danasoury MA. Comparison of corneal wavefront aberrations after photorefractive keratectomy and laser in situ keratomileusis. Am J Ophthalmol. 1999 Jan; 127(1):1-7.