[Reparation of deep burn wounds with different kinds of skin flaps in patients with electrical injury].
OBJECTIVE
To sum up the clinical experience in the reparation of burn wounds with different types of skin flaps in patients with severe electrical injury.


METHODS
Free skin flap, axile island flap with vascular pedicle and muscular skin flap were employed to repair 64 wounds in 49 cases.


RESULTS
Skin flap necrosis happened in 2 cases, congestion and necrosis at the edge of skin flaps in 4 cases, and complete survival of the skin flaps and primary healing of the wounds in the remaining cases.


CONCLUSIONS
Reparation of wounds with proper skin flaps according to the degree of the electrical injury is effective and reliable, which might be beneficial to the prevention of necrobiosis and the infection in deep tissue.
Department of Burns, The People's Hospital of Hainan Province, Haikou, 570311, P. R. China.
Yun-Chuan
YC
Pan
Yan-Kun
YK
Chen
Xin-Chi
XC
Ma
Jia-Qin
JQ
Xu
Si-Huan
SH
Chen
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002058:Burns, Electric / Q000601:surgery*; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013524:Surgical Flaps