Ricostruzione del sopracciglio con lembo a isola di cuoio capelluto basato sull'arteria temporale superficiale

The author described the reconstruction of a eyebrow, in a case of complete traumatic avulsion, using a scalp island flap based on the superficial temporal artery, in a young person of 32 years. Such lesion involved a serious aesthetic disablement to be able to causing turbe of the psychical equilibrium and individual relation, considered that the eyebrows exercises a determining function in the characterization of the face and the expressive gestures. The sagacity to cut the scalp island with a small advanced amplitude to that of the site in which it went inserted, has allowed during the sutura to obtain an optimal projection of the new-constructed eyebrow.