Plastic Surgery In Britain -- The exact pattern is cut and the hand brought down to a comfortable position. The base of the pattern is held on the abdominal wall just where it comfortably lies. The injury to the hand, sustained by petrol burns, of this patient, will be repaired by the replacement of the adherent soar tissue by full thickness skin taken as a direct flap from the abdominal wall. September 03, 1951. (Photo by British Official Photograph).