Polidocanol injection for chemical delay and its effect on the survival of rat dorsal skin flaps

Menevse G. T., TeomanTellioglu A., Altuntas N., CÖMERT A., TEKDEMİR İ.

JOURNAL OF PLASTIC RECONSTRUCTIVE AND AESTHETIC SURGERY, cilt.67, sa.6, ss.851-856, 2014 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 67 Sayı: 6
  • Basım Tarihi: 2014
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1016/j.bjps.2014.02.022
  • Dergi Adı: JOURNAL OF PLASTIC RECONSTRUCTIVE AND AESTHETIC SURGERY
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.851-856
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Polidocanol, Delay, Flap, Ischemia, PULSED-DYE-LASER, NONSURGICAL DELAY, SURGICAL DELAY, CUTANEOUS FLAPS, SUTURE DELAY, TUNABLE DYE, MODEL, RABBIT, TELANGIECTASIA, AUGMENTATION
  • Ankara Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Background and Aim: Surgical delay is an invasive method requiring a two-stage surgical procedure. Hence, methods that may serve as an alternative to surgical delay have become the focus of interest of research studies. From a conceptual view, any technique that interrupts the blood flow along the edges of a proposed flap will render the flap ischemic and induce a delay phenomenon. Polidocanol (Aethoxysklerol (R)-Kreussler) was initially used as a local anesthetic. Nowadays, it has been used as a sclerosing agent to treat telangiectasias and varicose veins. The aim of this experimental study was to investigate the effects of polidocanol injected around the periphery of a random flap as a sclerosing agent on flap delay and survival in a random flap model.