Walking-stalk skin flap
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walking-stalk-skin-flap-226-765747
title:
Walking-stalk skin flap
text:
A walking-stalk skin flap or waltzing tube pedicle is a reconstructive technique in which the skin and soft tissue to be used for the flap is formed into a tubular pedicle and moved from the source to the target site by anchoring at both ends, periodically severing one end and anchoring it closer to the flap target site. As antibiotics had not yet been invented when this procedure was developed, wrapping the flap in a tube was important because the risk of infection was reduced. The technique wa
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original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walking-stalk_skin_flap
date created:
2008-09-11T21:43:03Z
date modified:
2024-09-14T20:49:32Z
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