The Past, Present, and Future of Perforator Flaps in Head and Neck Surgery

Luccie M. Wo; Hao I. Wei; Fu Chan Wei

doi:10.1016/j.coms.2024.07.003

The Past, Present, and Future of Perforator Flaps in Head and Neck Surgery

Luccie M. Wo, Hao I. Wei, Fu Chan Wei^*

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Abstract

A perforator is a vessel that travels through muscle and perfuses the skin. Perforator flaps require intramuscular dissection and can be used as pedicled or free flap. With improved understanding of microvasculature, they can be tailored to have multiple skin paddles, multiple components, or shaped to conform to any defect. Reliable perforator flap-based reconstruction is a meticulous microvascular technique, ultimately allowing the surgeon to harvest any flap in a freestyle fashion and transplant to any recipient vessel. New technologies improve the safety and reproducibility of this type of reconstruction.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	425-433
Number of pages	9
Journal	Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Clinics of North America
Volume	36
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coms.2024.07.003
State	Published - 11 2024
Externally published	Yes

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Keywords

ALT flap
Hand neck reconstruction
Perforator flap
Plastic Surgery Procedures/methods
Humans
Head/surgery
Neck/surgery
Forecasting
Perforator Flap/blood supply

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