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A Model of Free Tissue Transfer: The Rat Epigastric Free Flap
Diogo Casal1,4, Diogo Pais1, Inês Iria3,4, Eduarda Mota-Silva5, Maria-Angélica Almeida2, Sara Alves6, Cláudia Pen6, Ana Farinho4, Luís Mascarenhas-Lemos1,6, José Ferreira-Silva6, Mário Ferraz-Oliveira6, Valentina Vassilenko5, Paula A. Videira3,4, João Gory O'Neill1,5
1Anatomy Department, NOVA Medical School, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, 2Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Department and Burn Unit, Centro Hospitalar de Lisboa Central - Hospital de São José, 3UCIBIO, Life Sciences Department, Faculty of Sciences and Technology, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, 4CEDOC, NOVA Medical School, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, 5Physics Department, Faculty of Sciences and Technology, LIBPhys, 6Pathology Department, Centro Hospitalar de Lisboa Central – Hospital de São José
This paper describes the steps required to raise a fasciocutaneous epigastric free flap and transfer it to the neck in the rat.
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