Localised varicosities in a 39-year-old tissue transfer to the lower limb.
The typical symptoms and signs of venous stasis disease with ulceration were found in a lower limb reconstruction within the tissues of a tube pedicled abdominal wall tissue transfer, performed 39 years previously. Varicosities were found on venogram to be limited to the donor tissue only.
Hoeyberghs
J L
JL
George Eliot Hospital, Nuneaton, UK.
Matthews
R N
RN
D002056:Burns / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011183:Postoperative Complications; D013524:Surgical Flaps; D013997:Time Factors; D014647:Varicose Ulcer; D014648:Varicose Veins