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The shark flap: a modified internal mammary artery perforator flap for composite defects in head and neck
Anna Scarabosio1, Alessandro Tel2, Filippo Contessi Negrini1
1Plastic Surgery Resident at Santa Maria della Misericordia Hospital, Udine, Italy.
Case Reports in Plastic Surgery & Hand Surgery
|February 23, 2023
Abstract:
This report describes a multi-vector variant of IMAP flap which allows to reconstruct composite head and neck defects. It was named the 'shark flap' because of its shape: a main body (the regular IMAP) and a superior 'fin' based on a randomic vascular pathway.
