The length: breadth ratio of skin flaps on the trunk: two new long narrow flaps.
Our experience of skin flaps on the trunk is reviewed. A single-pedicle flap based on the sterno-clavicular region and a bipedicled longitudinal back flap have length: breadth ratios much in excess of random pattern flaps.
D000005:Abdomen; D001415:Back; D006801:Humans; D008323:Mammary Arteries; D008722:Methods; D012867:Skin / Q000098:blood supply; D016038:Skin Transplantation; D013909:Thorax; D014182:Transplantation, Autologous