A model for staged compression of the vascular pedicle in a porcine myocutaneous flap.
There is a need for a laboratory model that would allow assessment of the effects of vascular pedicle compression in the myocutaneous flap. We describe a technique as used in the pig that responds to the needs of technical reproducibility and sequential compromise of vascular flow as measured by laser velocimetry and dermofluorometry.
D000818:Animals; D008722:Methods; D008954:Models, Biological; D013524:Surgical Flaps; D013552:Swine