{"id":39838,"date":"2018-12-14T12:00:51","date_gmt":"2018-12-14T11:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.yuveo.eu\/lexikon\/z-plastic\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T11:08:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T09:08:05","slug":"z-plastic","status":"publish","type":"encyclopedia","link":"https:\/\/www.yuveo.de\/en\/lexikon\/z-plastic\/","title":{"rendered":"Z-plastic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yuveo.de\/bilder\/le\/z-plastik-500.jpg\" alt=\"Z-plasty Z-flapplasty\" width=\"522\" height=\"176\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"inhalt\">\n<h2>What is a Z-plastic?<\/h2>\n<p><strong> Z-plasty<\/strong>, also known as Z-flap plastic surgery, is a type of skin flap plastic surgery. It is used in particular to redistribute skin tension and change the course of the scar. <\/p>\n<h2>Explanation of Z-flap plastic surgery<\/h2>\n<p>The picture above shows the principle of the Z-plasty. An incision is made from the ends of the scar at an angle of approx. 60\u00b0 to the existing scar so that 2 triangular skin flaps of the same size are created. The scar is cut out, creating the Z-shaped incision pattern of the Z-plasty.  <\/p>\n<p>The lobes are now exchanged for each other (green arrows). The result is now a Z whose center is perpendicular to the original course of the scar. The scar has thus been repositioned and lengthened.  <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yuveo.de\/bilder\/le\/z-lappen-plastik-fortlaufen.jpg\" alt=\"Continuous Z-flap plastic\" width=\"500\" height=\"245\"><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"parHeading3\">Continuous Z-plastic<\/h2>\n<p>The continuous Z-plasty shown in the picture enables the correction of longer scars and scar strands. The basic principle is the same as described in the last paragraph. <\/p>\n<h2>Application<\/h2>\n<p>Z-plasty has the following therapeutic indications in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yuveo.de\/en\/lexikon\/plastic-surgery\/\">plastic surgery<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yuveo.de\/en\/hand-surgery-duesseldorf\/\">hand surgery<\/a>, among others:  <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In the case of burns, Z-plasty is used to correct scar strands in particular.<\/li>\n<li>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yuveo.de\/en\/hand\/dupuytrens\/\">Dupuytren&#8217;s disease<\/a>, the skin of the fingers is often shortened in the longitudinal direction. Here too, the skin can be favorably redistributed using Z-flap plasty. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Z-plasty, also known as Z-flap plastic surgery, is one of the most popular skin flap procedures in plastic surgery and hand surgery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"template":"","encyclopedia-tag":[255,254],"class_list":["post-39838","encyclopedia","type-encyclopedia","status-publish","hentry","encyclopedia-tag-hautlappen-op","encyclopedia-tag-z-plastik"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yuveo.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/encyclopedia\/39838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yuveo.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/encyclopedia"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yuveo.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/encyclopedia"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yuveo.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yuveo.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"encyclopedia-tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yuveo.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/encyclopedia-tag?post=39838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}