Identifier: transactionsofso3319sout (find matches)
Title: Transactions of the Southern Surgical and Gynecological Association
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Southern Surgical and Gynecological Association (U.S.)
Subjects: Surgery Gynecology Surgery Genital Diseases, Female
Publisher: (S.l.) : The Association
Contributing Library: Yale University, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library
Digitizing Sponsor: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia and the National Endowment for the Humanities

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he lower pedicle.Then the upper pedicle was cut and the flap again elevated and againsutured back in its bed. Two days later the upper end of the flap wassutured into the palate defect, the resulting neck defect being filled inwith a Wolfe graft. The tip of the flap was turned back and, the flapwas detached from the palate, the slough removed and the pediclereplaced in the neck, as the operation had failed. I believe the lessons to be drawn from case in Fig. 5 are that thebase of the upper pedicle was made too narrow, that when any partof a flap shows the least inclination to slough this part should notbe transplanted, and that two days is not long enough to determine theviability of a flap. \ Fig. 6.—Sloughing flap on the arm of a child. The flap shown herewas made on the arm of a twelve-year-old boy with the intention oftransferring it to the upper lip and the side of the nose on a burned face.The flap was split at the time it was raised and this part sloughed. Itw:i> not used.
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