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TUBED FLAP [1 record]

Record 1 2010-05-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Surgery
  • The Skin
DEF

A flap created by making two long, parallel cuts through the skin and subcutaneous tissue, undermining the area between the incisions, then suturing the two skin edges of the flap together, with the epidermis facing outward, to make a rope, or tube, of the skin and subcutaneous tissue.

OBS

"tube graft": Considered incorrect in The International Dictionary of Medicine.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Chirurgie
  • Appareil cutané
CONT

Les lambeaux tubulés (...) : C'est un lambeau à deux pédicules, détaché par deux incisions longitudinales parallèles, puis transformé en cylindre par la suture de ses bords libres, cet enroulement laissant l'épiderme à l'extérieur.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Cirugía
  • Piel
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