Abstract
When Song et al. published their paper in 1984 on the thigh as a donor site for three new flaps with the anterolateral thigh, they closely fulfilled all the characteristics of a perforator flap [1].
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Hou, C., Chang, S., Lin, J., Song, D. (2015). Anterolateral Thigh Perforator Flap. In: Surgical Atlas of Perforator Flaps. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9834-1_19
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