title: Pre-expanded Super-Thin Skin Perforator Flaps.
abstract: Patients with severe postburn scar contractures underwent reconstruction of skin defects after scar excision with pre-expanded super-thin skin perforator flaps supplied primarily by perforators via the "bridging effect" from the branches of the adjacent arteries as 2-stage procedures. Pre-expansion is an innovative technique and may improve the anastomoses between subdermal vascular plexuses and extend the supplying area of these vessels to the flap. Such a flap becomes super thin, but with a prefabricated blood supply it can be used for reconstruction of skin defects of the face, neck, or other body part with improved functional and cosmetic outcomes.
authors.affiliation: Department of Plastic and Aesthetic Surgery, Dongguan Kanghua Hospital, 1000 Donguan Avenue, Dongguan 523080, Guangdong Province, P.R. China.
authors.forename: Chunmei
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: Department of Plastic and Aesthetic Surgery, Dongguan Kanghua Hospital, 1000 Donguan Avenue, Dongguan 523080, Guangdong Province, P.R. China.
authors.forename: Sifen
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.affiliation: Division of Plastic Surgery, University of California Davis Medical Center, 2221 Stockton Boulevard, Suite 2123, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA. Electronic address: llpu@ucdavis.edu.
authors.forename: Lee L Q
authors.initials: LL
authors.lastname: Pu
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D061525:Perforator Flap / Q000098:blood supply* / Q000601:surgery; D019651:Plastic Surgery Procedures / Q000379:methods*; D012867:Skin / Q000098:blood supply*; D016038:Skin Transplantation; D015626:Tissue Expansion / Q000379:methods*
keywords: Crossing-area blood supply; Perforator flaps; Pre-expansion; Pre-fabrication; Skin flaps; Super-thin flaps