title: Peri-alar skin excision and lip advancement in the closure of lip defects.
abstract: An upper lip reconstructive technique using advancement of the lateral part of the upper lip with excision of peri-alar skin has been resurrected and modified. It is useful when partial-thickness lip tissue is required in the nostril area and it replaces like tissue with like.
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D008046:Lip / Q000601:surgery*; D016038:Skin Transplantation; D012883:Skin Ulcer / Q000601:surgery; D013518:Surgery, Plastic / Q000379:methods*