Free flaps are commonly used in plastic and reconstructive surgery. Up to 10% of free
flaps may need to be re-explored often as a result of vessel thrombosis.
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In a recent multi-centre free flap outcome study of 493 free flaps a re-exploration
rate of 9.9% was reported.
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The overall flap failure rate was 4.4%.
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Published online: August 10, 2007
Footnotes
☆This paper was presented as a free paper presentation at the Summer Meeting of the British Association of Plastic Surgery on 14th July 2006 at University of Sheffield and Birmingham's National Plastic & Burns Surgery Scientific Meeting, Birmingham, UK, 29th October 2005.
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© 2007 British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
