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Thomas Funcik, MD; Marcelo Hochman, MD

Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 1995;121(6):654-657.

Abstract
Objective
To validate a model for skin flap edema in the piglet and determine whether intraoperative and postoperative intradermal corticosteroids reduce the edema created.

Design
Prospective, randomized, matched-control animal model.

Setting
Animal laboratory.

Participants
Twenty-five weight-matched purebred Yorkshire piglets.

Intervention
Intraoperative and postoperative injections of intradermal triamcinolone.

Main Outcomes Measured
Flap edema.

Results
A reproducible skin flap edema model was validated in the piglet. Intraoperative intradermal corticosteroids decreased flap edema but postoperative corticosteroids did not.

Conclusion
Clinical improvement in skin flap and supratip fullness may result from mechanisms other than edema.

(Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 1995;121:654-657)

Author Affiliations
From the Section of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Department of Otolaryngology and Communicative Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston.

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