“…In plastic and reconstructive surgery, several flaps for covering defects in the head and neck region are based on the blood supply of the STA [2,4,14,17,21,26]. Recently, it could be shown that the duplication of the superficial temporal pedicle grants greater length for facial reconstructions procedures by a split temporalis muscle compared to that of the deep pedicles [23]. Furthermore, the STA gains more and more importance for microsurgical free tissue transfer as a recipient vessel [18,19].…”