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LOCAL FLAPS - Practical Plastic Surgery
LLOOCCAALL FFLLAAPPSSDD eeffiinniittiioonnssAflapis a piece of tissue with a blood supply that can be used to coveran open wound. A flap can be created from skin with its underlyingsubcutaneous tissue, fascia, or muscle, either individually or in somecombination. Depending on the reconstructive requirements, evenbone can be included in a flapimplies that the tissue is adjacent to the open wound inneed of coverage, whereas in a distant flap , the tissue is brought froman area away from the open wound. LOCAL flap coverageof a wound is the next higher rung up the recon-structive ladder after a skin graft.
112 Practical Plastic Surgery for Nonsurgeons Skin Flaps Aportion of skin and subcutaneous tissue and, when possible, the under-lying fascia (the thin layer of connective tissue overlying muscle that has
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