Growth of a vascular malformation into a cross-finger flap.
We describe a vascular malformation which recurred by invading into the previously normal skin of a cross-finger flap. We suggest a similarity between the progression of a vascular malformation and the neo-vascularisation of a flap.
Warwick
D J
DJ
Welsh Centre for Plastic Surgery, St Lawrence Hospital, Chepstow.
Milling
M A
MA
D001165:Arteriovenous Malformations / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D005385:Fingers / Q000098:blood supply*; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009389:Neovascularization, Pathologic; D012008:Recurrence; D013524:Surgical Flaps / Q000502:physiology