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Department of Surgery

Lehigh Valley Health Network

Skin Transplantation

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Prefabrication Of A Secondary Tram Flap., Geoffrey G. Hallock Md May 1996

Prefabrication Of A Secondary Tram Flap., Geoffrey G. Hallock Md

Department of Surgery

A secondary TRAM flap was prefabricated in a rat model using the rectus muscle. The right rectus muscle was elevated as an inferiorly pedicled muscle flap in one experimental group (n = 6) and as a superiorly pedicled muscle flap in a second group (n = 5) and then sandwiched between a silicone sheet and the abdominal skin. Two weeks later, the abdominal skin and attached rectus muscle were elevated over the silicone sheet as a secondary TRAM flap. The surviving skin paddle areas of these prefabricated TRAM flaps were compared with superiorly (n = 7) and inferiorly (n = …


The Radial Forearm Donor Site: A Locus Minoris Resistentiae., Geoffrey G. Hallock Md Mar 1989

The Radial Forearm Donor Site: A Locus Minoris Resistentiae., Geoffrey G. Hallock Md

Department of Surgery

No abstract provided.