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Evolution, Anatomy, Advantages and Disadvantages, and Harvest Techniques of Profunda Artery Perforator Flap

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In 1987, Taylor and Palmer introduced the concept of vascular territories (angiosomes) [1], and then koshima and SOEDA reported the perforator flap technology [2]. Various forms of free flaps have been applied to many parts of the human body and different fields of surgery and have become important technical means in plastic reconstruction surgery [3].

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Song, D., Mitsunaga, N. (2023). Evolution, Anatomy, Advantages and Disadvantages, and Harvest Techniques of Profunda Artery Perforator Flap. In: Li, Z., Song, D. (eds) Oncoplastic Flap Surgery. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-8926-1_19

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