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Clinical applications of temporoparietal hair-bearing flaps for male pattern baldness and mustache formation. 1991

R Navarro-Ceballos, and R A Bastarrachea

Centro Medico de las Americas, Yucatan, Mexico.

This article demonstrates some variations and clinical applications of pedicled, vascularized, hair-bearing temporoparietal flaps. The most important advantages are that the baldness can be repaired in one operation, there is no loss of scalp skin, the procedure can be done under local anesthesia, and it is not necessary to hospitalize the patient or to give a blood transfusion due to the use of a cephalic tourniquet. We also use the temporoparietal flap for mustache formation in cases in which we have to camouflage a scarred upper lip as a result of bilateral cleft lip sequelae, trauma, or cancer. Island hair-bearing flaps are transferred from the scalp to the upper lip through a hemirhytidoplasty incision.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D008046	Lip	Either of the two fleshy, full-blooded margins of the mouth.	Philtrum,Lips,Philtrums
D008297	Male		Males
D008875	Middle Aged	An adult aged 45 - 64 years.	Middle Age
D006801	Humans	Members of the species Homo sapiens.	Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D000505	Alopecia	Absence of hair from areas where it is normally present.	Alopecia, Androgenetic,Baldness,Male Pattern Baldness,Pseudopelade,Alopecia Cicatrisata,Alopecia, Male Pattern,Androgenetic Alopecia,Androgenic Alopecia,Baldness, Male Pattern,Female Pattern Baldness,Hair Loss,Pattern Baldness,Alopecia Cicatrisatas,Alopecia, Androgenic,Alopecias, Androgenic,Androgenic Alopecias,Baldness, Female Pattern,Baldness, Pattern,Hair Losses,Loss, Hair,Losses, Hair,Male Pattern Alopecia
D013524	Surgical Flaps	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.	Island Flap,Island Flaps,Flap, Surgical,Flaps, Surgical,Pedicled Flap,Surgical Flap,Flap, Island,Flap, Pedicled,Flaps, Island,Flaps, Pedicled,Pedicled Flaps