Back to Search
Start Over
Local Muscle Flap in a Venous Hypertensive Environment
- Source :
- Annals of Plastic Surgery. 28:297-300
- Publication Year :
- 1992
- Publisher :
- Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health), 1992.
-
Abstract
- Local rotation muscle flaps are useful for soft tissue reconstruction in open grade III fractures of the lower extremity. Gastrocnemius or soleus muscle flaps provide early bone coverage and avoid a more demanding free tissue transfer. Deep vein thrombosis is common in injured limbs and venous hypertension may result in acute muscle flap necrosis. Loss of bone coverage and an increased risk of osteomyelitis follow. We present a successful soleus rotation flap for tibial coverage in a lower extremity with a documented major venous thrombosis.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
Reoperation
Rotation flap
medicine.medical_specialty
External Fixators
Deep vein
Muscle flap
Surgical Flaps
Fractures, Open
Postoperative Complications
medicine
Humans
Soleus muscle
Wound Healing
business.industry
Osteomyelitis
Thrombophlebitis
musculoskeletal system
medicine.disease
Thrombosis
Surgery
Tibial Fractures
Venous thrombosis
Increased risk
medicine.anatomical_structure
Anesthesia
business
Venous Pressure
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 01487043
- Volume :
- 28
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Annals of Plastic Surgery
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....f540623e75ec5fff64a09c8380a51716