[Repair and reconstruction of massively damaged wounds].
OBJECTIVE
To report repair and reconstruction of massively damaged wound under unusual condition.


METHODS
One hundred and forty-seven patients with deep tissue defects were admitted from January 1993 to December 2000, among them, 96 cases suffered from electrical injury, 18 cases with hot press injury, 18 cases with deep burns as a result of CO poisoning or epileptic seizure, 6 cases caused by chemical producing necrosis and wound infection, 3 cases with radiation injuries, 2 cases with chemical burn, 2 cases with explosive injury, 2 cases with frostbite. One hundred and seventy five wounds in 147 patients were repaired by transfer of local flap, forearm conversal island skin flap, pectoralis major myocutaneous flap, delto-pectoral skin flap, latissimus dorsi skin flap, gastroecnemius myocutaneous flap, anterior and posterior tibial artery island skin flap, and so on. The wound defect ranged from 1 cm x 1 cm to 20 cm x 28 cm, and the flaps were 1.5 cm x 2.0 cm to 22 cm x 30 cm. The necrotic tendon was replaced with acellular allogenic tendon simultaneously in 7 cases.


RESULTS
One hundred and sixty-nine flaps were survival with first intention, while necrosis of the tip of flap occurred in 6 cases. The transplantation of acellular allogenic tendon in all cases were survival. The function and configuration in 28 cases were satisfactory after 4 months to 8 years follow-up.


CONCLUSIONS
Various types of flaps are choosen according to the position, defect range and degree of wound, which is an ideal method to restore the function and to improve patients' living condition.
Chai
J K
JK
Burns Institute, 304th Hospital of PLA, Beijing, P. R. China 100037.
Li
L G
LG
Chen
B J
BJ
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002057:Burns, Chemical / Q000601:surgery*; D002058:Burns, Electric / Q000601:surgery*; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006085:Graft Survival; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D019651:Plastic Surgery Procedures; D016038:Skin Transplantation; D017695:Soft Tissue Injuries / Q000601:surgery*; D013524:Surgical Flaps