A Model of Free Tissue Transfer: The Rat Epigastric Free FlapDiogo Casal 1,4, Diogo Pais 1, Inês Iria 3,4, Eduarda Mota-Silva 5, Maria-Angélica Almeida 2, Sara Alves 6, Cláudia Pen 6, Ana Farinho 4, Luís Mascarenhas-Lemos 1,6, José Ferreira-Silva 6, Mário Ferraz-Oliveira 6, Valentina Vassilenko 5, Paula A. Videira 3,4, João Gory O'Neill 1,5
1Anatomy 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.
