Abstract
As the name suggests, digital artery perforator (DAP) flaps are based off the digital arteries. The concept of DAP flaps arose from the observation that many arterial branches from the digital artery originate in the lateral aspect of the finger. These branches perforate the thin fascia and adiposal tissue, terminating in multiple arterioles in the subdermal layer [1, 2].
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Hou, C., Chang, S., Lin, J., Song, D. (2015). Digital Artery Perforator Flap. In: Surgical Atlas of Perforator Flaps. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9834-1_16
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