{"id":39841,"date":"2018-12-14T11:57:29","date_gmt":"2018-12-14T10:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.yuveo.eu\/lexikon\/v-y-plastic\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T11:18:49","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T09:18:49","slug":"v-y-plastic","status":"publish","type":"encyclopedia","link":"https:\/\/www.yuveo.de\/en\/lexikon\/v-y-plastic\/","title":{"rendered":"V-Y plastic"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"inhalt\">\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yuveo.de\/bilder\/le\/v-y-lappenplastik.jpg\" alt=\"V-Y plastic, flap plastic\" width=\"300\" height=\"172\"><\/p>\n<h2>What is a V-Y flap plastic?<\/h2>\n<p>V-Y plasty is a form of flap plasty that is used to cover defects by <strong>moving the skin<\/strong>, e.g. in tumor operations or burns.<\/p>\n<h2>Explanation of the V-Y plastic<\/h2>\n<p>The following example schematically shows a tumor that is covered using this technique after rectangular (green rectangle) excision.<\/p>\n<h2><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yuveo.de\/bilder\/le\/v-y-lappenplastik-500.jpg\" alt=\"Illustration of the V-Y flap plastic surgery\" width=\"500\" height=\"137\"><\/h2>\n<h2>Examples<\/h2>\n<p>This surgical technique is used in plastic surgery in the following context:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Defect coverage during <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yuveo.de\/en\/lexikon\/basal-cell-carcinoma-white-or-light-skin-cancer\/\">basal cell carcinoma surgery<\/a> and for other malignant and benign tumors of the skin.<\/li>\n<li>Covering of decubital ulcers in the area of the sacrum, etc.<\/li>\n<li>These plastics were also used in the old technique of cutting out sweat glands as part of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yuveo.de\/en\/lexikon\/hyperhidrosis-treatment-surgery\/\">hyperhidrosis<\/a>. Today, the domain of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yuveo.de\/en\/op\/body\/sweat-gland-removal\/\">sweat gland removal is lipocurettage<\/a>. <\/li>\n<li>In hand surgery, this flap plasty is often used to cover defects in partial finger amputations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>V-Y plasty is a form of flap plasty that is used to cover defects by moving the skin &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"template":"","encyclopedia-tag":[278],"class_list":["post-39841","encyclopedia","type-encyclopedia","status-publish","hentry","encyclopedia-tag-lappen-plastik"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yuveo.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/encyclopedia\/39841","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=39841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"encyclopedia-tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yuveo.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/encyclopedia-tag?post=39841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}