Abbe flap on mucosal pedicle.
A difficult secondary bilateral cleft lip deformity with nasal distortion was treated with eight local flaps specifically designed for this case. One of these was an Abbe flap in which the coronary vessel in the pedicle was inadvertently divided. The judgment in handling this flap and its fate as a composite lip flap based on a narrow mucosal pedicle is reported.
D000328:Adult; D002971:Cleft Lip / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008046:Lip / Q000098:blood supply; D008297:Male; D009092:Mucous Membrane; D009666:Nose / Q000002:abnormalities*; D013524:Surgical Flaps / Q000379:methods*