Rhomboid flaps are frequently used in facial reconstruction to repair rhombus-shaped defects. The aesthetic and mechanical properties of these flaps make them especially useful for reconstruction of defects on the cheek, temple, lips, nose, and eyelids. Rhomboid flaps are full-thickness cutaneous local flaps with a random blood supply; they rely on the dermal-subdermal plexus of blood vessels. Limberg first described a transposition flap for closing a rhomboid-shaped defect in 1946. This flap is used to repair a defect that has a configuration of a rhombus with two opposing 60° and two opposing 120° interior angles. Dufourmentel modified this technique in 1962 to close defects with any acute angle. Quaba proposed a rhomboid flap in 1987 to coverage circular defects.
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