%0 Journal Article
%T Crossplasty: An Alternative Technique for Closing Double Defects
%A Ibrahim K. Al Aradi and Wael M. El-Shafei
%J Clinical Medicine Insights: Dermatology
%D 2012
%I 
%X Crossplasty is a modified O-T advancement flap. It is an alternative technique to close double surgical defects, which are arranged in a vertical line. It is useful to camouflage the scar in forehead parallel lines. Geometrically, it is an inverted T joined to a vertical linear defect. There are three important pre-requisites to this technique: an extensive undermining to all flap limbs, excision of the middle zone normal skin and the purse string stitch of the central zone of the flap.
%U http://www.la-press.com/crossplasty-an-alternative-technique-for-closing-double-defects-article-a1712