SKIN FLAPS IN PLASTIC SURGERY

THE RECONSTRUCTIVE LADDER

• Healing by secondary intention
• Primary closure and delayed primary closure
• Skin grafts - tissue expansion
• Tissue transfer: local - distant pedicled
• Free flaps

SKIN GRAFTS

Dermatoom

Partial thickness skin graft

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Flap + ent

Full thickness skin graft

LOCAL SKIN FLAPS