Use of parieto-occipital flaps in the surgical treatment of baldness.

I present a surgical procedure for the treatment of baldness, using parieto-occipital and occipito-parietal flaps. I believe these flaps are somewhat different from those advocated earlier by others, 1,3-5. We have treated about 400 cases (Tables I, II), and the overall results have been excellent with this method. The only complications have been dehiscences of the donor wound when the wound was under tension (15) and necrosis of the distal two cm of the flap (10).