What is the definition or description of: flap surgery?

Reconstructive Surg.: "flap surgery" refers to transferring tissue to replace missing form or function. Depending on the deficit, the flap can contain skin, fat, muscle, and/or bone. The definition of a flap implies that the blood supply is also being transferred together with the tissue type(s) and flaps are often used to cover difficult to heal wounds. Flap dissection requires intricate anatomic knowledge.

Recon Surgery: Flap surgeries are techniques where a surgeon can use tissue from one area, either near or distant, to reconstruct another area. This can be a random flap (bilobe flap) based on the vessels in the skin to an axial flap (pectoral flap) that is based on a named artery with a good blood supply to a free flap (fibula) where the blood supply (artery & venous drainage) are detached and reconnected.

Flaps: This a reconstructive term used to describe using tissue from one area to reconstruct another. It can be made up of different anatomical regions such as bone, muscle, fascia, fat and or skin.

See below: Flap surgery is technique in plastic & reconstructive surgery where any type of tissue is lifted from donor site & moved to recipient site with an intact blood supply. Similar to but different from a graft, which does not have an intact blood supply & thus relies on growth of new blood vessels. Used to fill a defect such as a wound resulting from injury or surgery.

Flap surgery: Flaps are tissue such skin, muscle, fat, fascia, bone or any combination of these. Based on the needs of the patients wound from tumor removal, trauma, or infection the reconstructive surgeon develops a plan reconstruct the tissues that have been lost. Nasal reconstruction was performed by developing a flap of tissue from the arm.