To explore the clinical effect of the pedicled lower lid-sharing flap for full-thickness reconstruction of the upper eyelid. Eyelids are continuously visible and function in protecting eye sight.

Researchers have developed a new technique for head and neck reconstruction using a pedicled latissimus dorsi flap. This approach offers a safer, faster alternative for high-risk patients ...

The surgery — called a pedicled abdominal flap — was used on soldiers in World War II and those returning from Afghanistan. But the surgeon James Henderson told Devon Live that it was a rare ...

If your surgeon leaves the flap connected to its own blood supply it is called a pedicled flap. If they connect the flap to new blood vessels, this involves microsurgery and they call it a free flap.

Sometimes, moving just a few inches can go a long way. Osaka Metropolitan University researchers have developed a promising ...

TRAM flaps are of 2 types – free or pedicled. While pedicled flaps are introduced in the breast area along with the accompanying blood vessels, free flaps contain the tissue that is separated ...

After mastectomy, these options include prosthetic reconstruction (tissue expander or implant), local flap reconstruction, and distant pedicled flap reconstruction (including latissimus dorsi [LD] ...