An alternative method to free flap for distal leg and foot defects due to electrical burn injury: Distally Based Cross-Leg Sural Flap
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An alternative method to free flap for distal leg and foot defects due to electrical burn injury: distally based cross-leg sural flap.
BACKGROUND High voltage electrical injuries can cause devastating results especially in distal extremities. Although free flaps are the golden standards for the reconstruction of these defects, sometimes local flap alternatives are more useful. One of the most favorable local flap is distally based sural flap (DBSF), which can be used in cross-leg fashion when ipsilateral extremity is affected ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Turkish Journal of Trauma and Emergency Surgery
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1306-696X
DOI: 10.5505/tjtes.2015.35306