Roberto Pirrello

TL;DR: The free style perforator nasolabial island flap has become the method of choice in the authors' institution for nasal ala reconstruction, especially when the defect involves the whole subunit.

TL;DR: The successful, personalized medical and surgical management of extensive periorbital mucormycosis in an elderly diabetic, HIV-negative woman and the role of aesthetic plastic surgery to preserve the patient's physical appearance is reported.

TL;DR: Current knowledge on propeller flaps is reviewed based on a review of the literature and on the authors' experience, and definition, classification, and indications in the different body regions are discussed.

TL;DR: The retroauricular skin may be considered a flaps bank for ear reconstruction because it offers a great variety of island flaps that are suitable for every kind of loss of substance of the ear, have a safe vascularisation, skin of similar colour and texture, are easy to harvest under local anaesthesia on an outpatient basis and cause no relevant morbidity at the donor site.

TL;DR: The vascularization of the supraclavicular skin depends on skin perforators coming from the transverse cervical artery and draining into the superficial venous plexus and, based on these vessels, a reliable free suprAClavicular flap seems to be safe to harvest, with the donor-site scar lying in the suPRac Lavicular crease.