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  A Model of Free Tissue Transfer: The Rat Epigastric Free Flap Diogo Casal^1,4, Diogo Pais¹, Inês Iria^3,4, Eduarda Mota-Silva⁵, Maria-Angélica Almeida², Sara Alves⁶, Cláudia Pen⁶, Ana Farinho⁴, Luís Mascarenhas-Lemos^1,6, José Ferreira-Silva⁶, Mário Ferraz-Oliveira⁶, Valentina Vassilenko⁵, Paula A. Videira^3,4, João Gory O'Neill^{1,5 1}Anatomy 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.