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SEVILLE, SPAIN - Staged flaps can be an effective option for repairing large facial defects following Mohs micrographic surgery, Dr. Hayes B. Gladstone said at the Ninth World Congress on Cancers of the Skin.
Both paramedian forehead flaps and melolabial flaps can produce excellent functional and aesthetic results, especially for repairing nasal defects. But because they are raised from nonadjacent sites and must be divided in a second surgical step a few weeks after they are created, these flaps are often not considered by dermatologists as a repair...
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