Disease relevance of Surgical Flaps

• Differential release of endothelin in myocutaneous island flaps in response to gradually insetting venous stasis or arterial ischemia [1].
• A great deal of the flow reduction in acutely elevated island flaps may thus be due to primary hypothermia rather than to the degenerative release of noradrenaline, which seems to have no early effect on skin flap blood flow [2].

High impact information on Surgical Flaps

• Improved outcome of surgical flaps treated with topical dimethylsulfoxide [3].
• A double-faced island flap and/or injection of hydrogel resolves this problem satisfactorily [4].
• In one group of six rabbits (group 1), a specially processed contractile 70L/30D,L polylactic acid plate, 15 x 6 x 0.6 mm, was attached to the island flap by one extremity, and to the fixed ipsilateral frontal bone by the other [5].
• "Second look" at auricular reconstruction with a postauricular island flap: "Flip flop flap" [6].
• The blood flow of 28 island flaps was measured by laser Doppler flowmetry immediately after flap elevation and 10 minutes after topical application of saline (control), amrinone (5 mg/ml), or lidocaine (10%) to the pedicle in an attempt to resolve the vasospasm [7].

Biological context of Surgical Flaps

• Kinetics of E-selectin expression in surgical flaps [8].

Anatomical context of Surgical Flaps

• The treatment included (1) citric acid conditioning of the root surfaces, (2) grafting of particles of decalcified, freeze-dried homologous bone, and (3) placement of freeze-dried, homologous dura mater sheets between the replaced surgical flaps and the tooth surfaces [9].
• The treatment selected included scaling and root planing, surgical flap design that would enable the flap to completely cover the surgical site, complete enucleation of granulation tissue, tetracycline root conditioning, a particulate autogenous bone graft, and an expanded polytetrafluoroethylene (e-PTFE) membrane [10].
• An unfavorable midline abdominal scar that extends both below and above the umbilicus will preclude the use of the standard lower or upper transverse abdominal island flaps for such purposes [11].
• Calcitonin gene-related peptide increases microcirculation after mechanically induced ischemia in an experimental island flap [12].

Associations of Surgical Flaps with chemical compounds

• Contour correction of the vermilion of the upper lip by island flap of the lower lip [13].
• Surgical flaps were replaced slightly coronal to the cemento-enamel junction [14].
• DHV-PGE2ME and placebo were applied to bilateral island flaps on 70 anesthetized rats; then the vascular pedicle of each flap was clamped for 10 hours [15].
• We strongly believe that rotational transfer of a musculocutaneous island flap composed of the flexor digitorum brevis muscle is the best procedure currently available for covering and reconstructing the weight-bearing area of the heel and its posterior area from the histologic and functional points of view [16].
• Ratios of phosphocreatine (PCr) to inorganic phosphate (Pi) indicate energy status in both thermal wounds and surgical flaps [17].

Gene context of Surgical Flaps

• GCF samples for the quantification of MMP-3 and -8 levels were obtained from the intrabony site where a membrane was placed (membrane site), from the non-adjacent site on the adjacent tooth which was involved in the surgical flap (surgical control site), and from a healthy site (healthy) on the contralateral side [18].
• In more extensive lesions, through and through defects, or when lined flaps are required, nondelayed midline forehead pedicled or island flaps are employed [19].
• Calcitonin gene-related peptide delays the no-reflow phenomenon in the rat island flap [20].
• The transverse abdominal island flap: Part II. Surgical technique [21].
• The purpose of this study was to examine VEGF protein expression in biopsies of surgical flaps with immunohistochemical techniques [22].

Analytical, diagnostic and therapeutic context of Surgical Flaps

• Effect of dimethyl sulfoxide on island flap perfusion and survival in rats [23].
• Before reapproximation of the surgical flaps, eight of the osteotomies were covered with a resorbable membrane and eight were filled with human osteogenic protein-1 (hOP-1) on a collagen carrier [24].
• Prosthodontic management of postsurgical soft tissue deformities associated with marginal mandibulectomy. Part II: Surgical flaps [25].
• A rat model of carrier-free recombinant human BMP-2 intramuscular implantation was used, followed by creation of either an island flap or transplantation of a free flap [26].

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