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MeSH Heading: Surgical Flaps
Tree Number(s): A10.850.710; E07.862.710
Unique ID: D013524
RDF Unique Identifier: http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D013524
Annotation: includes skin & muscle tissue but do not specify site or tissue unless particularly discussed; do not coordinate with TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS
Scope Note: Tongues of skin and subcutaneous tissue, sometimes including muscle, cut away from the underlying parts but often still attached at one end. They retain their own microvasculature which is also transferred to the new site. They are often used in plastic surgery for filling a defect in a neighboring region.
Entry Version: SURG FLAPS
Entry Term(s): Flap, Surgical; Flaps, Surgical; Island Flap; Island Flaps; Pedicled Flap; Surgical Flap
Previous Indexing: Skin (1966-1979); Surgery, Plastic (1966-1979); Transplantation, Autologous (1966-1979)
Public MeSH Note: 80
History Note: 80
Date Established: 1980/01/01
Date of Entry: 1978/12/14
Revision Date: 2020/05/27

Allowable Qualifiers: adverse effects (AE)

blood supply (BS)

classification (CL)

economics (EC)

ethics (ES)

history (HI)

immunology (IM)

innervation (IR)

microbiology (MI)

parasitology (PS)

pathology (PA)

physiology (PH)

standards (ST)

statistics & numerical data (SN)

supply & distribution (SD)

surgery (SU)

transplantation (TR)

trends (TD)

veterinary (VE)

virology (VI)

Concept UI: M0020887
Scope Note: Tongues of skin and subcutaneous tissue, sometimes including muscle, cut away from the underlying parts but often still attached at one end. They retain their own microvasculature which is also transferred to the new site. They are often used in plastic surgery for filling a defect in a neighboring region.
Terms: Surgical Flaps Preferred Term
Term UI T039769
Date01/01/1999
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (1980); Flaps, Surgical
Term UI T039767
Date12/14/1978
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID UNK (19XX); Surgical Flap
Term UI T039768
Date12/14/1978
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID UNK (19XX); Flap, Surgical
Term UI T039766
Date12/14/1978
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID UNK (19XX)

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