USE OF THE FREE PREFABRICATED TEMPOROPARIETAL FASCIA-CHONDRO-CUTANEOUS FLAP NOURISHED BY ONLY ARTERIAL INFLOW - AN ARTERIAL FLAP

Pedicled temporoparietal fascial flaps have been used extensively in h ead and neck reconstruction for many years. Also, the fascia has been grafted, and the skin graft transformed into a vascularized pedicled f lap (prefabricated temporoparietal fasciocutaneous flap). On the other hand, some authors have used free temporoparietal fascial flaps for d efects that require to be filled in lower and upper extremity wounds. In this case, a free prefabricated temporoparietal fascio-chondro-cuta neous flap having only an arterial inflow was used in eyelid reconstru ction.