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W-plastic rotation flap to cover nasal defect
1Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Fairfax Hospital, Falls Church, VA.
Annals of Plastic Surgery
|October 1, 1990
Abstract:
Keeping in mind the direction of the relaxed skin tension lines (RSTL), we used a local W-plastic rotation skin flap from the cheek to cover a large nasal defect resulting from the excision of a benign skin lesion. This technique, first described by Imre [7], is superior to the direct single-pedicle advancement flap from the cheek, or to any nasolabial flap, for repair of such nasal defects.