title: Microsurgery within reconstructive surgery of extremities.
abstract: Reconstructive surgery of extremities is an object of a special attention of surgeons. Vessel and nerve damages, deficiency of soft tissue, bone, associated with infection results in a complete loss of extremity function, it also raises a question of amputation. The goal of the study was to improve the role of microsurgery in reconstructive surgery of limbs. We operated on 294 patients with various diseases and damages of extremities: pathology of nerves, vessels, tissue loss. An original method of treatment of large simultaneous functional defects of limbs has been used. Good functional and aesthetic results were obtained. Results of reconstructive operations on extremities might be improved by using of microsurgery methods. Microsurgery is deemed as a method of choice for extremities' reconstructive surgery as far as outcomes achieved through application of microsurgical technique significantly surpass the outcomes obtained through the use of routine surgical methods.
authors.affiliation: Eristavi National Center of Surgery; Clinic of Vascular and Reconstructive Surgery, Tbilisi, Georgia.
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Pheradze
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Pheradze
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Tsilosani
authors.forename: Z
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Goginashvili
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Mosiava
mesh_terms: D005121:Extremities / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D023821:Limb Salvage / Q000379:methods*; D008866:Microsurgery; D019651:Plastic Surgery Procedures; D016896:Treatment Outcome