title: Microsurgical flap models in the rat.
abstract: Microsurgical flaps have been widely used in clinical reconstructive surgery. Although these procedures have achieved great clinical success, utilization of microsurgical flap techniques have also led to a number of basic questions that researchers must now attempt to answer. The rat has been the source of many flap models in these investigations. This article provides a condensed description of the procedures, anatomic data, and research applications for skin, muscle, myocutaneous, bone, osteomuscular, and osteomyocutaneous microsurgical flap models in the rat.
authors.affiliation: Division of Plastic Surgery, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson 39216, USA.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: W D
authors.initials: WD
authors.lastname: Sones
authors.forename: W C
authors.initials: WC
authors.lastname: Lineaweaver
mesh_terms: D000714:Anastomosis, Surgical; D000818:Animals; D008722:Methods; D008866:Microsurgery; D023421:Models, Animal; D051381:Rats; D013524:Surgical Flaps / Q000098:blood supply / Q000502:physiology