What are the types of flap?

Flaps are of two main types, free flaps and pedicled flaps.

• Free flap: The flap with its blood vessel is disconnected and then attached to a blood vessel at a recipient site.
• Pedicled flap: Flap that has its blood supply with at least one artery and one vein.

What are the 4 types of skin grafts?

Depending on the origin:

• Autograft or autologous graft: skin obtained from the patient’s own donor site.
• Allograft or heterologous graft: skin obtained from another person.
• Xenograft or heterograft: skin from other species, such as pigs.
• Synthetic skin substitutes: manufactured products that work as skin equivalents.

What is the most commonly used flap?

Slotted flaps are the most commonly used flaps today, and they can be found on both small and large aircraft.

What is the difference between a TRAM flap and DIEP flap?

TRAM flap focuses on using tissue from your abdominal muscles, as well as some soft tissue. DIEP flap spares the abdominal muscle and uses only soft fat tissue and local blood vessels.

What does flap mean in surgery?

A flap is a piece of tissue that is still attached to the body by a major artery and vein or at its base. This piece of tissue with its attached blood supply is used in reconstructive surgery by being set into a recipient site (injured area onto which a flap or graft is placed).

What is wound flap surgery?

One surgical method used to encourage healing in pressure injuries is flap surgery, which involves taking a section of skin with an intact blood supply and placing it over the injured area. Flaps play a major role in the healing of wounds with exposed structure.

What is the difference between a skin graft and a skin flap?

A “skin graft” is the transfer of a portion of the skin (without its blood supply) to a wound. A “flap” consists of one or more tissue components including skin, deeper tissues, muscle and bone.

What is a skin flap surgery?

Flap surgery involves transporting healthy, live tissue from one location of the body to another – often to areas that have lost skin, fat, muscle movement, and/or skeletal support.

What is the best breast reconstruction method?

A free flap is the most common technique used for breast reconstruction. It is called a free flap because the tissue used to reconstruct your breast is completely removed from the area, most often your stomach area (abdomen).

What is LD flap?

In a latissimus dorsi flap procedure, an oval flap of skin, fat, muscle, and blood vessels from your upper back is used to reconstruct the breast. The blood vessels (artery and vein) of the flap are left attached to their original blood supply in your back.

What is the recovery time for flap surgery?

In most circumstances, these drains will remain in for one to two weeks. If they are highly productive they will stay in longer. The recovery time for flap reconstruction is four to six weeks to resume most normal activities.

What is a flap surgical procedure?

Flap (surgery) Flap surgery is a technique in plastic and reconstructive surgery where any type of tissue is lifted from a donor site and moved to a recipient site with an intact blood supply. This is distinct from a graft, which does not have an intact blood supply and therefore relies on growth of new blood vessels.

What are the types of plastic surgery?

The most common cosmetic surgeries are breast augmentation, liposuction, nasal surgery, eyelid surgery and abdominoplasty. Other Plastic and Cosmetic Surgery Procedures Include: Abdominoplasty – tummy tuck. Blepharoplasty – eyelid surgery. Phalloplasty. Mammoplasty: – Breast augmentations – breast implant or “boob job”.

What is flap in medical terms?

FLAP stands for 5-lipoxygenase-activating protein. FLAP has been implicated in a number of inflammatory responses, including asthma, arthritis, psoriasis, heart attack and stroke.