Which statement is true?
The nerve supply to the gracilis flap is the obturator nerve. The dominant vascular supply is the medial circumflex femoral artery and vein. At the medial knee, sartorius is superficial to gracilis and semitendinosus is deep. The gracilis musculocutaneous flap for breast reconstruction is well described, and gracilis is a workhorse flap in perineal reconstruction.
Who served as Medical Officer with Garibaldi and has a name associated with the full thickness skin graft?
Born in Breslau in 1824, he studied medicine in Glasgow and qualified in 1856. He worked as surgeon to Garibaldi’s ‘le Mille’ in the Sicilian campaign in 1859 before returning to Scotland where he became an ophthalmic surgeon. He spent 8 years working in Melbourne from 1893, but returned to Glasgow and died in Scotland in 1904. He used full thickness skin grafts to avoid contracture when used on eyelids.
Interleukin-1 (IL-1) is released from:
Concerning foetal wound healing:
There are higher concentrations of Type III collagen. Furthermore, the inflammatory phase is absent or significantly attenuated in foetal healing.
The following best describes the sequence of sensory recovery in a healing skin graft:
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