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Nowadays, it is important for a novice plastic surgeon to master the skill of working with free flaps on a living biological model. This experience will allow further to test new experimental techniques and conduct research on representative models close to humans. This chapter describes how acquired early knowledge and skills can be used to perform microsurgical free graft transfer on a large living biological model. The preoperative preparation and planning of the reconstructive intervention, the course of the operation, and the features of the working of two teams of surgeons are also detailed.
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Khachatryan, A., Tevosyan, A., Novoselskiy, D., Arakelyan, G., Yushkevich, A., Nazaretovich Nazarian, D. (2021). Experimental Free Flap Autotransplantation. In: Microsurgery Manual for Medical Students and Residents. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73531-9_31
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