Customized prefabricated neovascularized free flaps.
Neovascularization of tissues into which a vascular pedicle has been implanted can result in the creation of a flap, or free flap, which is supported by those vessels as a neopedicle. This phenomenon allows the construction of customized prefabricated free flaps from tissue without restriction to naturally occurring vascular territories.
Hirase
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Microsurgical Replantation Transplantation Department, Davies Medical Center, San Francisco, CA 94114.
Valauri
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Buncke
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Newlin
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D000818:Animals; D016025:Bone Transplantation; D006801:Humans; D009132:Muscles / Q000637:transplantation; D011817:Rabbits; D051381:Rats; D016038:Skin Transplantation; D013524:Surgical Flaps