An introduction to the chimeric deep inferior epigastric artery perforator (DIEAP)-rectus abdominis muscle flap.
Publication/Presentation Date
11-1-2008
Abstract
A muscle perforator flap is a unique form of fasciocutaneous flap whose circulation is derived from musculocutaneous perforators, but without including any muscle. This anatomic relationship intuitively should readily allow the formation of branch-based chimeric or polyflaps consisting of a cutaneous perforator flap and its corresponding muscle as a combined flap, both ultimately supplied by a common source vessel. Many versions of the rectus abdominis musculocutaneous flap based on the deep inferior epigastric vessels are well known, but formation of a chimeric flap consisting of its component parts has heretofore not been reported. This treatise is intended primarily to provide an anatomic description that introduces the deep inferior epigastric artery perforator (DIEAP)-rectus abdominis muscle chimeric flap, with a clinical example that mainly demonstrated its usefulness to be the aesthetic advantage of a concomitant abdominoplasty.
Volume
61
Issue
5
First Page
580
Last Page
583
ISSN
1536-3708
Published In/Presented At
Hallock G. G. (2008). An introduction to the chimeric deep inferior epigastric artery perforator (DIEAP)-rectus abdominis muscle flap. Annals of plastic surgery, 61(5), 580–583. https://doi.org/10.1097/SAP.0b013e31818b4cc4
Disciplines
Medicine and Health Sciences
PubMedID
18948790
Department(s)
Department of Surgery
Document Type
Article