TREATMENT OF TRUNK DEFECTS USING PERFORATOR FLAPS: A CASE SERIES INTRODUCING SUPRASCAPULAR ARTERY PERFORATOR FLAP

Treatment of trunk defects using perforator flaps: A case series introducing suprascapular artery perforator flap

This case series explores the efficacy of freestyle perforator flaps, including the newly introduced suprascapular artery perforator flap (SSAP), in reconstructing trunk defects.Over a five-year period, 24 perforator flap procedures were performed on 19 patients, primarily for defect reconstruction after skin tumor and ulcer resections.Flap design

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Long-term expansion of basal cells and the novel differentiation methods identify mechanisms for switching Claudin expression in normal epithelia

Abstract Epithelia are tightly connected cellular sheets, that shield our body from the external environment.They are continuously maintained by a pooled population of undifferentiated cells through differentiation.However, the maintenance mechanisms remain incompletely understood due to the difficulty of experimentally observing the differentiatio

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