Nonendoscopic harvest of the gastrocnemius muscle flap through a small incision.
Traditional gastrocnemius flap harvest requires a long skin incision, starting from the popliteal fossa to the mid leg. The authors designed three instruments to facilitate harvest of this flap through a small incision without the help of an endoscope in 10 patients. All 10 gastrocnemius muscle flaps survived with a 100% success rate.
Tsai
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Department of Surgery, Chung-Ho Memorial Hospital, Kaohsiung Medical University, Taiwan.
Lin
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TM
Lai
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CS
Lin
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SD
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001132:Arm / Q000601:surgery; D004724:Endoscopy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007866:Leg / Q000601:surgery*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D018482:Muscle, Skeletal / Q000601:surgery*; D013524:Surgical Flaps; D020858:Tissue and Organ Harvesting / Q000379:methods*