War surgery of the faceA treatise on plastic restoration after facial injury by John BRoberts ..Prepared at the suggestion of the subsection on plastic and oral surgery connected with the office of the surgeon generalIllustrated with 256 figures . Fig. 238.— Construction of outer canthus with split temporal flap. 404 WAR SURGERY OF THE FACE. When the eversion is great, or when the cicatricial characterof the surrounding skin precludes transfer of tension by slidingtoward the eye, a V-flap, a frontal or a temporal flap with apedicle may often be used with advantage. These are to berotated and i

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War surgery of the faceA treatise on plastic restoration after facial injury by John BRoberts ..Prepared at the suggestion of the subsection on plastic and oral surgery connected with the office of the surgeon generalIllustrated with 256 figures . Fig. 238.— Construction of outer canthus with split temporal flap. 404 WAR SURGERY OF THE FACE. When the eversion is great, or when the cicatricial characterof the surrounding skin precludes transfer of tension by slidingtoward the eye, a V-flap, a frontal or a temporal flap with apedicle may often be used with advantage. These are to berotated and inserted in the gaps left after the ectropic lid hasbeen replaced. The pedicle of such a flap is divided when unionhas been secured, which is usually at about the end of a week orten days. The situation from which a flap may be taken to cover the raw-surface left, after dissecting loose and replacing the everted eye-.

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