The Clipped Wings of "Jatayu"- A Double Set of Bilateral Sequential Bipedicled Flaps to Primarily Close the Secondary Defects on the Back Following the Harvest of a Trapezius Myo-cutaneous Flap

Sunil Kumar Rout; Mainak Mallik; Akanksha Rajpoot; Priyanka Pant

doi:10.1007/s12070-023-04328-6

The Clipped Wings of "Jatayu"- A Double Set of Bilateral Sequential Bipedicled Flaps to Primarily Close the Secondary Defects on the Back Following the Harvest of a Trapezius Myo-cutaneous Flap

Indian J Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2024 Feb;76(1):1351-1354. doi: 10.1007/s12070-023-04328-6. Epub 2023 Nov 10.

Authors

Sunil Kumar Rout¹, Mainak Mallik², Akanksha Rajpoot², Priyanka Pant²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Plastic Surgery, Kalinga Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhubaneswar, India.
² Department of Burns & Plastic Surgery, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhubaneswar, India.

PMID: 38440450
PMCID: PMC10908743 (available on 2025-02-01)
DOI: 10.1007/s12070-023-04328-6

Abstract

We report an innovative technique for closure of a large secondary donor-site defect (in a post-electric-burn primary defect in cervico-occipital area, reconstructed with Trapezius myo-cutaneous flap) by using a double set of sequential bilateral bipedicled flaps which resembled "Jatayu", the holy bird with clipped wings as per the epic "Ramayana".

Keywords: Bipedicled Flaps; Cervico-occipital defects; Post-electric-burn neck; Trapezius flap.

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