gracilis muscle

The gracilis muscle is commonly used as a flap in microsurgery.

This should be completed in most situations before the smile surgery where the gracilis muscle is grafted to the face.

Analogue to the gracilis muscle, this muscle can be trimmed to the correct size and volume.

As a functioning pedicled flap, the gracilis muscle can be transferred for the treatment of anal incontinence.

The gracilis muscle is mostly used free neurovascular muscle, because it has a reliable anatomy and is relatively simple to harvest.

The gracilis muscle (also hip flexor/adductor)

Gracilis muscle is widely used in reconstructive surgery, either as a pedicled flap or as a free microsurgical flap.

Based on the preference of the surgeon, the gracilis muscle, latissimus dorsi muscle, or pectoralis minor muscle are used as free neurovascular grafts.

It distributes branches to the obturator externus, pectineus, adductores, and Gracilis muscle, and anastomoses with the Posterior branch of the obturator artery and with the medial femoral circumflex artery.

As a pedicled flap, gracilis muscle can be used in perineal and vaginal reconstruction, after oncological surgery, in the treatment of recurrent anovaginal and rectovaginal fistulas as well in the coverage of the neurovascular bundle after vascular surgery.