Vascular augmentation of skin and musculocutaneous flaps.
In a series of rats, pigs, and dogs, a method for ligating an expendable vessel and placing it under a skin flap or using the vessel to create a new pedicle (neovascular pedicle) for a musculocutaneous flap by the process of neovascularization is demonstrated. No ischemic stimulus is necessary to induce this process of transmural neovascularization.
D000818:Animals; D004285:Dogs; D005263:Femoral Artery / Q000637:transplantation; D005268:Femoral Vein / Q000637:transplantation; D006119:Groin / Q000098:blood supply; D008297:Male; D008722:Methods; D009132:Muscles / Q000098:blood supply; D009389:Neovascularization, Pathologic; D051381:Rats; D011919:Rats, Inbred Strains; D012867:Skin / Q000098:blood supply; D013524:Surgical Flaps; D013552:Swine; D013997:Time Factors