
pmid: 35472843
handle: 11567/1094277 , 11381/2933783
The complex procedures involved in the reconstructive surgery of human skin to minimize post-operative scarring are here modeled by means of an automated computational tool. A finite strain no-compression membrane model accounting for the tendency to develop wrinkling regions in the skin is presented. The constitutive behavior of the material is then described by a suitable hyperelastic incompressible potential. Transpositions of skin flaps during surgery procedures are here computationally described by a general mapping technique of the internal boundary corresponding to surgery cut. The archetypal reconstructive surgery of a Z-plasty, where a rotational transposition of the resulting triangular flaps is involved, is considered in details, along with multiple Z-plasty and rhombic flap transposition. The results are discussed in terms of optimal deformation parameters, related to stress/strain localization, displacement discontinuities and wrinkling.
Rhombic flap transposition, 610, Plastic Surgery Procedures, Skin mechanic, Surgical Flaps, Surgical Flap, Cicatrix, Hyperelastic membrane; Reconstructive surgery; Rhombic flap transposition; Skin mechanics; Z-plasty; Cicatrix; Computer Simulation; Humans; Skin; Surgical Flaps; Reconstructive Surgical Procedures, Reconstructive surgery, 617, Humans, Computer Simulation, Reconstructive Surgical Procedures, Hyperelastic membrane, Z-plasty, Human, Skin
Rhombic flap transposition, 610, Plastic Surgery Procedures, Skin mechanic, Surgical Flaps, Surgical Flap, Cicatrix, Hyperelastic membrane; Reconstructive surgery; Rhombic flap transposition; Skin mechanics; Z-plasty; Cicatrix; Computer Simulation; Humans; Skin; Surgical Flaps; Reconstructive Surgical Procedures, Reconstructive surgery, 617, Humans, Computer Simulation, Reconstructive Surgical Procedures, Hyperelastic membrane, Z-plasty, Human, Skin
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