Neurocutaneous metacarpal flaps.
The article describes the possibility of covering large skin defects of the fingers by the use of fasciocutaneous flap from the back of the hand. It is pedicled on a sensory nerve branch and its paraneural tissue. The flap relies on blood supply from the constant para- and intraneural vascular network which gives perforator branches towards the overlying skin as well as on the constant anastomoses between the dorsal and volar arterial pool. We present a patient with a skin defect along the whole radial side of the index who underwent such reconstruction.
Kateva
M
M
Pirogov Hospital for Emergency Medicine, Hand Surgery Department, Sofia, Bulgaria. mkateff@yahoo.com
Dimitrov
K
K
D000328:Adult; D006230:Hand Injuries / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D050279:Metacarpal Bones / Q000637:transplantation*; D019635:Neurosurgical Procedures / Q000379:methods*; D011826:Radial Nerve / Q000293:injuries* / Q000601:surgery*; D012867:Skin; D013524:Surgical Flaps