Director of Surgical Services Angell Animal Medical Center Boston, Massachusetts
This lecture discusses the brief history of veterinary reconstructive surgery and its evolution over the last four decades. The use of skin flaps, axial pattern flaps, muscle flaps, skin grafting, stretching techniques, and labial flaps now allows us to close various problematic wounds effectively. Moreover, reconstructive surgery plays a major role in cancer surgery. These techniques allow the surgeon to resect neoplasms more aggressively, knowing that a variety of advanced closure options to "close the surgical hole” are available.