Journal article
Leg length preservation with pedicled fillet of foot flaps after traumatic amputations.
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Six patients with insufficient soft-tissue coverage after lower limb trauma were treated with pedicled fillet of foot flaps to achieve primary stump closure and to preserve leg length. The flaps used were all based on either the posterior tibial neurovascular pedicle, the anterior tibial neurovascular pedicle, or both. Five flaps survived; one patient required conversion of a through-knee to an above-knee amputation and debridement of the flap because of venous thrombosis of the pedicle. In t...
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- Publication status:
- Published
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- Journal:
- Plastic and reconstructive surgery
- Volume:
- 115
- Issue:
- 2
- Pages:
- 498-505
- Publication date:
- 2005-02-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1529-4242
- ISSN:
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0032-1052
- Source identifiers:
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226781
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- English
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- Pubs id:
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pubs:226781
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- pubs:226781
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- 2012-12-19
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- 2005
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