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Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery
Soft-tissue reconstruction organised as a ladder: direct closure, graft, local flap, free tissue, always the simplest rung that works. Hand surgery where millimetres are function, and burns, where the skin's failure becomes the whole body's problem.
Backdrop: A split-thickness skin graft donor site · User:Kevin308 · Public domain
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Split-thickness skin graft
Harvest with the dermatome, meshing and fixing the graft, and the donor site.
Source: Children's Hospital Colorado · Watch on YouTubeWatch for
- Dermatome depth and the donor bleeding pattern
- Why the graft is meshed
- What kills a graft: haematoma, shear, infection
Flexor tendon repair techniques
Core suture configurations and the epitendinous stitch, drawn and compared.
Source: Hand, Plastic, Reconstructive and Nerve Surgery · Watch on YouTubeWatch for
- Four-strand core repair
- The epitendinous suture and gliding
- The pulleys you must not sacrifice
Flexor tendon rehabilitation
The hand therapy that decides the result: early active motion protocol.
Source: University Hospitals Birmingham · Watch on YouTubeHow to design a Limberg rhomboid flap
The geometry of the transposition flap that closes a rhomboid defect.
Source: Hand, Plastic, Reconstructive and Nerve Surgery · Watch on YouTubeWatch for
- Drawing the defect as a rhombus with 60 and 120 degree angles
- Choosing the flap along the line of maximum extensibility
- Where the donor site closes
How to design a bilobed local flap
The two-lobed rotation flap for nasal tip defects.
Source: Hand, Plastic, Reconstructive and Nerve Surgery · Watch on YouTube
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