title: Cervicothoracic reconstruction with an anteromedial thigh flap: a novel flap concept.
abstract: The anteromedial thigh region is more popular as a donor site for skin graft than for flap. It is an extended area whose limits are poorly defined. This explains why flaps vascularised by different source arteries but described under the same name can be found in the literature introducing confusion and misunderstanding. This confusion was introduced since the primary descriptions as Baek presented in 1983 an anteromedial skin flap whose source artery was the superficial femoral artery and Song published a year later, under the same name, a flap vascularised by the innominate descending branch of the lateral circumflex femoral artery. Whatever the name and the source artery, the anteromedial thigh region is an under-exploited region which can be useful in the case of composite and complex defects. Anteromedial thigh flaps, either as pedicled or as a microvascular free-tissue transfer, were used in reconstructive surgery. We here describe a chimeric flap of the anteromedial thigh region and used as a flow-through flap.
authors.affiliation: Institut Gustave Roussy, Department of Plastic Surgery, 114 rue Edouard Vaillant, 94805 Villejuif, France.
authors.forename: Alexandre
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Leduey
authors.forename: Nicolas
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Leymarie
authors.forename: François
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Bidault
authors.forename: Elie
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Fadel
authors.forename: Philippe
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Dartevelle
authors.forename: Frédéric
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Kolb
mesh_terms: D000792:Angiography; D005260:Female; D006258:Head and Neck Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*; D049671:History, 18th Century; D006801:Humans; D009364:Neoplasm Recurrence, Local / Q000601:surgery; D009381:Neoplasms, Radiation-Induced / Q000601:surgery*; D019651:Plastic Surgery Procedures / Q000379:methods*; D012509:Sarcoma / Q000601:surgery*; D013524:Surgical Flaps; D013848:Thigh; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed