Compound or Specially Designed Flaps in the Lower Extremities.
Novel and combined tissue transfers from the lower extremity provide new tools to combat soft tissue defects of the hand, foot, and ankle, or fracture nonunion. Flaps can be designed for special purposes, such as providing a gliding bed for a grafted or repaired tendon or for thumb or finger reconstruction. Propeller flaps can cover soft tissue defects of the leg and foot. In repairing severe bone and soft tissue defects of the lower extremity, combined approaches, including external fixators, one-stage vascularized bone grafting, and skin or muscle flap coverage of the traumatized leg and foot, have become popular.
U.O.C. Traumatology, Hand Surgery, Microsurgery, A.S.O. Città della Salute e della Scienza, CTO - Hospital, Via Gianfranco Zuretti, 29, 10126 Torino, Italy. Electronic address: bruno.battiston@virgilio.it.
Bruno
B
Battiston
U.O.C. Traumatology, Hand Surgery, Microsurgery, A.S.O. Città della Salute e della Scienza, CTO - Hospital, Via Gianfranco Zuretti, 29, 10126 Torino, Italy.
Davide
D
Ciclamini
Department of Hand Surgery, The Hand Surgery Research Center, Affiliated Hospital of Nantong University, 20 West Temple Road, Nantong 226001, Jiangsu, China. Electronic address: jinbotang@yahoo.com.
Jin Bo
JB
Tang
D016025:Bone Transplantation; D005593:Fracture Fixation, Internal; D005599:Fractures, Ununited / Q000601:surgery*; D006230:Hand Injuries / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D007869:Leg Injuries / Q000601:surgery*; D019651:Plastic Surgery Procedures; D017695:Soft Tissue Injuries / Q000601:surgery*; D013524:Surgical Flaps; D016896:Treatment Outcome
Combined transfer; Leg and foot; Osteoperiosteal flaps; Perforator flap; Propeller flap; Soft tissue defects