composite graft

Composite graft A composite graft is a small graft containing skin and underlying cartilage or other tissue.

Brent, B.: "Nasal Alar Repair: The Auricular Composite Graft."

A Bentall procedure is a cardiac surgery operation involving composite graft replacement of the aortic valve, aortic root and ascending aorta, with re-implantation of the coronary arteries into the graft.

Nipple-Areolar Composite Graft (Sharing) - if the contralateral breast has not been reconstructed and the nipple and areolar are sufficiently large, tissue may be harvested and used to recreate the nipple-areolar complex on the reconstructed side.