- Eloesser flap
- a flap of skin created over the ribs for open drainage of chronic empyema.
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Eloesser flap
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Eloesser flap — Eloes·ser flap (el esґər) [Leo Eloesser, American surgeon, 1881–1976] see under flap … Medical dictionary
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