title: How soon may the axial vessels of a surviving free flap be safely ligated: a study in pigs.
abstract: The supplying vessels of microvascular free flaps in pigs were ligated at various intervals after transfer in order to study the revascularisation from the recipient bed. At 8 days of later survival occurred. Earlier, although necrosis was not inevitable, the results were unpredictable.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D006085:Graft Survival; D008026:Ligation; D008833:Microcirculation; D009336:Necrosis; D012867:Skin / Q000098:blood supply; D016038:Skin Transplantation; D013552:Swine; D013997:Time Factors; D014182:Transplantation, Autologous