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The practice of surgery . part is reached, and then the incisionsare carried to a greater depth, to insure an abundance of vascular sup-ply. In no part of the wound is the pericranium interfered with, and,if possible, the flap should not be made to encroach upon the hairyscalp, for obvious reasons. The neck of the flap is made sufficientlylong to admit of its being twisted, without serious interruption to thecirculation, and to facilitate this movement the knife is carried lowerdown on that side to which the twist is to be made. A little time is 174 KIIINOPLASTICS. allowed for the oozing of bl
The practice of surgery . part is reached, and then the incisionsare carried to a greater depth, to insure an abundance of vascular sup-ply. In no part of the wound is the pericranium interfered with, and,if possible, the flap should not be made to encroach upon the hairyscalp, for obvious reasons. The neck of the flap is made sufficientlylong to admit of its being twisted, without serious interruption to thecirculation, and to facilitate this movement the knife is carried lowerdown on that side to which the twist is to be made. A little time is 174 KIIINOPLASTICS. allowed for the oozing of blood to cease, then the flap, having beentwisted so as to bring the integument upwards, is adjusted to the rudi-ments of the old feature, carefully and accurately, by the requisite num-ber of points of interrupted suture, and support is afforded to the flapbeneath, by the lodgement of dossils of lint, so as to give that prominenceand character which seem best suited to its new office of repair and imita- Fig. 67. Fig.
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