The use of kite flaps to prevent displacements of eyebrows

Displacements of eyebrows, with or without loss of tissue, attract attention because of their prominent sites. The kite flap is a useful surgical technique to cover a cutaneous defect adjacent to an eyebrow when closure of a wide fusiform excision by straight-line suturing may displace the eyebrow. Excisions of cutaneous lesions close to eyebrows and reconstructions by kite flaps are described and illustrated.