Salvage of Finger Length in Septicemic Necrosis Using 3 Free Flaps From a Single Anterolateral Thigh Donor Site
| Autor: | Robert H. Caulfield, Venkat Ramakrishnan, Jeremy Birch, Atoussa Maleki-Tabrizi |
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| Rok vydání: | 2008 |
| Předmět: |
Adult
medicine.medical_specialty Necrosis medicine.medical_treatment Free flap Thigh Amputation Surgical Surgical Flaps Fingers Ischemia Sepsis Humans Medicine Arthritis Infectious business.industry Soft tissue Cosmesis Plastic Surgery Procedures Numerical digit Surgery Plastic surgery medicine.anatomical_structure Amputation Female medicine.symptom business |
| Zdroj: | Annals of Plastic Surgery. 60:623-625 |
| ISSN: | 0148-7043 |
| Popis: | Severe septicemic necrosis can result in extremely debilitating morbidity for patients, often resulting in 4-limb amputation. Further operative procedures to improve both function and cosmesis can be fraught with complexity and complications. The ideal aim in such patients would be to maintain sufficient length and provide soft tissue cover in a single 1-step procedure. We present a novel case in which twin free flaps were used acutely to provide 3 separate skin paddles to cover 2 hand stumps from a single anterolateral thigh donor site, thus maintaining the optimum digit length for subsequent function. We believe that this is the first reported case of using 3 separate flaps from 1 single anterolateral thigh donor site to resurface and salvage digit length in both hands following septicemic necrosis. Detailed knowledge of the anatomy of the anterolateral thigh flap and an understanding of the perforator flap concept can allow others to further develop the many and versatile uses of this flap. |
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