title: Supermicrosurgery-assisted venous supercharging of a reverse-flow angular artery perforator flap for nasal reconstruction.
abstract: The centre ground in the world of flaps have over time, gradually shifted from tubed pedicled, random-pattern, axial-pattern, pedicled, free and currently, to free-styled flaps. These concepts are broadly based on the angiosome-perforasome concept. In this case report, we illustrate how the concept of venosome capture can be transposed onto reverse-flow flaps with the aid of venous supercharging. Moreover, if this is seen from the free-styled flap perspective, it requires supermicrosurgical expertise. This case report hence, serves as a fusion of all the above concepts.
authors.affiliation: Dept. of Plastic Surgery, Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead, UK.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Vijayan
authors.affiliation: Dept. of Plastic Surgery, Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead, UK.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Al-Aswad
authors.affiliation: Dept. of Plastic Surgery, Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead, UK. Electronic address: ruben.kannan@gmail.com.
authors.forename: R Y
authors.initials: RY
authors.lastname: Kannan
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008866:Microsurgery / Q000379:methods*; D009669:Nose Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*; D061525:Perforator Flap / Q000098:blood supply*; D012225:Rhinoplasty / Q000379:methods*
keywords: Reverse-flow flaps; Supermicrosurgery; Venosome capture