| 1. | Advantages of free flaps are their reliable blood supply and freedom of planning.
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| 2. | Surgical techniques for cleft palate in dogs include prosthesis, mucosal flaps, and microvascular free flaps.
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| 3. | Mycha's new face would require five free flaps, using skin from his thighs, abdomen and forearm.
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| 4. | Note that has also edited Free flap breast reconstruction, an article whose main contributor is Otto Placik.
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| 5. | Both pedicled and free flaps can be muscular or musculocutaneos ( the so-called " composite flaps " ).
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| 6. | If one free flap failed to attach and heal properly, the other four interlocked flaps would die in succession.
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| 7. | Larger defects may require repair with a skin graft, local skin flap, pedicled skin flap, or a microvascular free flap.
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| 8. | Usually, a microvascular anastomosis is performed at the second intercostal space to the artery on which the free flap is based.
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| 9. | Thanks to further refinements of microvascular techniques in the past three decades, transfer of a free flap is now a routine procedure.
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| 10. | Usually the harvest of a " free flap " is performed in such a fashion to cause the least amount of disability.
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