Experimental Model of Prefabricated Flap with Gastroepiploic Vessels in Arch and abdominal Skin in Rabbits: Anatomopathologic and Imunohistochemical Study. / Modelo experimental de retalho pré-fabricado com vasos gastroepiplóicos em arco e pele abdominal em coelho: análise anatomopatológica e imunohistoquímica

AUTOR(ES)

Mateus da Costa Kawasaki

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2006

RESUMO

The aim of this study was to develop an experimental model and to evaluate the period as well as the viability of prefabricated cutaneous flaps with a cutaneous area of 100cm2 in lateral abdominal wall in rabbits. The cutaneous flaps were made through the direct implantation of gastroepiploic vessels in arch with flow-through below the subcutaneous of the lateral wall in rabbits. Eighteen animals of the New Zealand rabbits lineage were used divided in three Groups: Group I (control group), without implantation of gastroepiploic vessels, and Group II and Group III, which the implant of gastroepiploic vessels was accomplished in arch in the subcutaneous of the lateral abdominal wall of the animals. These animals were submitted to surgery later for making of axial flap, exclusively based in the transposed gastroepiploic vessels. The period between the first surgery and the second one was of two weeks in the Group II and six weeks in the Group III. Fourteen days after the second surgery the animals were sacrificed and the flaps evaluated. In Group I animals, control, it was observed 100% of necrosis area in the detached skin portion that was sutured again at the original bed, not preserving vascular connection with the local tissue; in the animals of the Group II an average necrotic area of 56,83% was observed and in the animals of the Group III, total absence of necrosis in the flaps. Samples of flaps tissue from the animals of the Groups II and III were evaluated through standard histological hamatoxilin-eosin protocols and imunohistochemical protocol for evaluation of tissue viability through the activity of cellular division, considering the index of Proliferating cell nuclear antigen (iPCNA) marked cells. It was observed significant increase on the iPCNA (p<0,01, two-tailed Mann-Whitney test) between the Groups II and III, with higher index in the Group III; the standard hematoxilin-eosin evaluation confirm the better viability of the flaps from the Group III. The study demonstrates the possibility to create and transfer an arch vascular pedicle to subcutaneous and, after certain time, to make and to transpose a flap with considerable dimensions which circulation comes from this new pedicle. This study brings additional information for elaboration of prefabricated microsurgical or island flaps for repair of complex defects that need great areas of skin covering and long pedicles, with low morbosity to the donor area.

ASSUNTO(S)

survival area imunohistochemi neovascularization surgical flaps retalhos cirúrgicos neovascularização prefabricated flap retalhos pré-fabricados Área viável flap vasculature vascularização de retalho

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