The siting of comparable skin flaps in pigs.
The mean surviving length of flaps of the same size on the pig's abdomen was measured; there was a statistically significant difference in the surviving length of flaps based side by side, whereas the difference in surviving lengths of flaps based opposite to each other was not significant. It is suggested that flaps used for comparison in experiments on pigs should be based opposite each other and not adjacent.
D000005:Abdomen / Q000601:surgery; D000818:Animals; D016038:Skin Transplantation; D013552:Swine; D014022:Tissue Survival; D014182:Transplantation, Autologous