Perforator flap terminology: update 2002
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An Experimental Human DIEP Flap Model to Investigate Preservation Strategies for Vascularized Composite Allografts and Free Flaps
Published on: December 5, 2025
Phillip N Blondeel1, Koenraad Van Landuyt, Moustapha Hamdi
1Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, University Hospital Gent, De Pintelaan 185, 2K12C B-900 Gent, Belgium. phillip.blondeel@rug.ac.be
Clinics in Plastic Surgery
|August 15, 2003
Abstract:
The first terminology consensus on perforator flaps, reached in 2001, was reviewed and further simplified following the Sixth International Course on Perforator Flaps.
