The "shutter flap" for large defects of the forehead.
Acquired defects involving exposed bone in the central forehead can be challenging to reconstruct. We present a simple technique in which two superiorly based flaps of galea frontalis and skin are transposed medially, like the shutter of a camera. Full-thickness grafts are used to close the donor site. This is a remarkably easy way to close some very large forehead wounds.
Levine
N S
NS
Section of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, USA.
Sahl
W J
WJ
Stewart
J B
JB
D000368:Aged; D002280:Basal Cell Carcinoma / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D005546:Forehead / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D013518:Surgery, Plastic; D013524:Surgical Flaps; D015626:Tissue Expansion