Challenging the limits: build your own reliable double microvascular clamps.
This report describes the detailed construction, experimental basis, and clinical application of a reliable double microvascular clamp that can be built from inexpensive parts that are readily available. Twenty-five clinical free-tissue transfers were performed using this clamp with an acceptable free-flap survival rate.
Hernández-Zendejas
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Division of Plastic, Reconstructive and Maxillofacial Surgery, University of Guadalajara Medical College, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico.
Guerrerosantos
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D000328:Adult; D000818:Animals; D003250:Constriction; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008866:Microsurgery / Q000295:instrumentation*; D051381:Rats; D019651:Plastic Surgery Procedures / Q000295:instrumentation*; D014656:Vascular Surgical Procedures / Q000295:instrumentation*