The use of kite flaps to prevent displacements of eyebrows.
Displacements of eyebrows, with or without loss of tissue, attract attention because of their prominent sites. The kite flap is a useful surgical technique to cover a cutaneous defect adjacent to an eyebrow when closure of a wide fusiform excision by straight-line suturing may displace the eyebrow. Excisions of cutaneous lesions close to eyebrows and reconstructions by kite flaps are described and illustrated.
D004954:Esthetics; D005138:Eyebrows; D005153:Facial Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008722:Methods; D009508:Nevus, Pigmented / Q000601:surgery*; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000517:prevention & control*; D013524:Surgical Flaps