The bipedicled lip flap for reconstruction of the vermilion border in the patient with a severe perioral burn.
Reconstruction of the severely burned lip may require both reconstitution of the tissue bulk and an increase in size of the vermilion. We present two patients in whom a bipedicled lip flap was used to transpose both bulk and vermilion from the relatively normal donor lip to the atrophic burned lip.
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D000328:Adult; D002056:Burns / Q000601:surgery*; D002058:Burns, Electric / Q000601:surgery; D003286:Contracture / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008046:Lip / Q000293:injuries* / Q000601:surgery; D008297:Male; D009061:Mouth Mucosa / Q000637:transplantation*; D013518:Surgery, Plastic; D013524:Surgical Flaps