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Flap substances exist for free flaps and pedicle flaps (<<261238005 |Free flap (substance)| and << 261235008 |Pedicle flap (substance)|) and reflect the fact that whether a flap is free or pedicle is also a function of its blood supply (i.e. completely unattached from its original blood supply, or still attached via a vascular pedicle).
Modeling Guidelines
| Parent concept | Most distal appropriate descendant of 256683004 |Flap (substance)| |
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- Exceptions: none
| Semantic tag | (substance) |
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| Definition status | 900000000000074008 |Necessary but not sufficient concept definition status (core metadata concept)| |
- Exceptions: none
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- Flap substances comprising composite multiple flap tissues are siblings (and not subtypes) of the various single tissue flap substances from which they are composed
- Flap substances should not include the procedure method such as whether a flap is local or distant, or if a flap is rotated or advanced
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