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PERFORATOR FLAP [1 record]

Record 1 2008-02-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Surgery
DEF

Unit of tissue and skin (flap) that is supplied by small blood vessels (perforators) that branch from the large artery and vein that form the vascular pedicle of the flap.

CONT

Perforator flaps are based on the musculocutaneous perforators [perforator veins and arteries], which exit the muscle to enter the soft tissue of the skin paddle.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Chirurgie
CONT

Complications des reconstructions mammaires : lambeau perforant [de veines et d'artères perforantes] comparé au lambeau TRAM.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Cirugía
CONT

Denominamos colgajo perforante tóracodorsal al segmento de piel y tejido celular subcutáneo irrigado por la o las ramas cutáneas de la arteria y la vena tóracodorsales que perforan el músculo dorsal ancho.

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