The use of muscle flaps in leg soft tissue defects.
The use of muscle transpositions following the technique of Ger is discussed in fifteen cases where important soft tissue defects in the leg, some of them combined with complicated fractures, made spontaneous healing or coverage with split skin grafts impossible.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007869:Leg Injuries / Q000601:surgery*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009132:Muscles / Q000637:transplantation*; D009336:Necrosis / Q000601:surgery; D013524:Surgical Flaps; D014945:Wound Healing