[Determining the limits of blood supply of vascularized skin flaps]

On the basis of theoretical analysis of a problem and own anatomic investigations (41 preparation), the author has shown that a size of the axial cutaneous flap was determined by a sum of sizes of the true random flaps with a base situated on the axial vessels. An original concept for definition of the boundaries of guaranteed blood supply of the cutaneous vessels, algorithm for their designing and elevation have been developed.