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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Plast Reconstr Surg. 2016 Dec;138(6):1297–1308. doi: 10.1097/PRS.0000000000002821

Table 4.

Recipient Procedure Timings

Mean Time (min)
Harvest of vein grafts 12 ± 2
Superficial temporal artery and vein exposure   7 ± 2
Internal maxillary artery exposure 29 ± 7
Facial artery and vein exposure 16 ± 4
Inset of donor tissue 22 ± 5
Arterial anastomosis 11 ± 3
Venous anastomosis 13 ± 3
Cranial nerve coaptation (VI, V1, IV, III, and II) 61 ± 12