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The Ewha Medical Journal
Ewha Womans University School of Medicine

Ewha Med J 1992; 15(2):109-114

pISSN: 1598-7450

DOI: https://doi.org/10.12771/emj.1992.15.2.109

Original Article

Survival of Musculocutaneous Flap with Draining Vein in Rats

Chin Ho Yoon

Copyright ⓒ 1992. Ewha Womans University School of Medicine. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Published Online: Jul 24, 2015

Abstract

Since Willam Harvery had proposed the concepts of circulation in 1628. the anatomy and physiology of circulation has been intensively studied. Venous drainage of a musculocutaneous flap was shown to be of importance for the prevention of necrosis and successful flap taken.

We created an experimental model in rats in which the illiolumbar veins were used as the draining veins, and the following experiment was performed.

The experimental models were divided into 3 groups ;

Group I: bilateral illiolumbar neurovascular bundles of the grafts were not preserved as a control.

Group II: preserving the bilateral illiolumbar veins as the draining veins.

Group III: silastic sheet was placed between the musculocutaneous flap and the underlying bed. In this study, it was demonstrated that

1) Necrosis could be prevented by draining veins.

2) Group II with draining veins : it indicated that the number and size of the draining veins were critical for the survival of the flap.

3) Group III with silastic sheet protection of plasmatic circulation was showed that flap could not survived.