title: [Anterior tibial muscle hernia--reconstruction with periosteal patch plasty].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Anterior tibial muscle hernia is the most frequent lower extremities muscle hernia. The aim of this paper was to present a possibility of a new surgical technique for anterior tibial muscle hernia reparation.
  
  
  METHODS
  We presented three cases of anterior tibial muscle hernia in adolescents. The cases were diagnosed clinically and ultrasonographically. In all three cases reconstruction was done with periosteal patch plasty of fascial defect.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Easy approachable, cheap, autologous material, periost, in the frame of periosteal patch plasty, could be one of the possible solutions in anterior tibial muscle hernia treatment.
authors.affiliation: Institut za zdravstvenu zastitu dece i omladine Vojvodine, Klinika za decju hirurgiju, Novi Sad, Srbija. ducamaric@gmail.com
authors.forename: Dugan
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Marić
authors.forename: Dejan
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Madić
authors.forename: Dusica
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Marić
authors.forename: Milan
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Stanković
authors.forename: Miroslav
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Smajić
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D059685:Herniorrhaphy; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D018482:Muscle, Skeletal; D009135:Muscular Diseases / Q000601:surgery*; D013524:Surgical Flaps