Indian Journal of Plastic Surgery Medknow Publications on behalf of Indian Journal of Plastic Surgery ISSN: 0970-0358 EISSN: 1998-376x Vol. 38, Num. 2, 2005, pp. 195-195

Indian Journal of Plastic Surgery, Vol. 38, No. 2, July-December, 2005, pp. 195

Letter To Editor

Author's reply

Bhattacharya V

Code Number: pl05047

Related article: pl05046

Dear Sir,
Thank you for giving us an opportunity to reply. We thank Dr SS Chatterjee for his interest in our work. The flaps that have been described in the article are perforator based flap as without the incorporation of distal perforators, flap of such noncoventional dimension will not survive. It is not necessary to show the perforators,as enough studies have been conducted to standardise these techniques.

Where the flap is islanded it is called skelitanized perforator based island flap. It is also a precise entity. Hope I have been able to answer adequately.

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