The Golden Spiral Flap: A New Flap Design that allows for Closure of Larger Wounds under Reduced Tension --How Studying Nature’ s Own Design Led to the Development of a New Surgical Technique
This paper details the study of biodynamic excisional skin tension lines on the scalp, and the development of a new flap technique for closure of scalp wounds. Recently, a study by this author, on pigskin, replicated whorls by placing tissue under rapid stretch using saline tissue expanders, by re-c...
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Frontiers Media S.A.
2016-11-01
|
| Series: | Frontiers in Surgery |
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fsurg.2016.00063/full |