Lower-limb reconstruction utilizing the reverse sural artery flap-gastrocnemius muscle cuff technique

Annals of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 174-178

  Al Qattan, M M ^a  

^a KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Flap; Lower limb; Sural

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANKLE FRACTURE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EPIDERMOLYSIS; FASCIOCUTANEOUS FLAP; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; INFECTION; LEG DISEASE; LEG RECONSTRUCTION; LEG REVASCULARIZATION; MALE; NEUROMA; OPEN FRACTURE; PLASTIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE SURAL ARTERY FLAP GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE CUFF TECHNIQUE; SURAL NERVE; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TIBIA FRACTURE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND HEALING IMPAIRMENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTERIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOWER EXTREMITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; SURAL NERVE; SURGICAL FLAPS;

EID: 22944475798     PISSN: 01487043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.sap.0000168888.31085.29     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. Masquelet AC, Romana MC, Wolf G. Skin island flaps supplied by the vascular axis of the sensitive superficial nerves: anatomical study and clinical experience in the leg. Plast Reconstr Surg. 1992;89:1115-1120.
2. Dolph JL. The superficial sural artery flap in distal lower third extremity reconstruction. Ann Plast Surg. 1998;40:520-522.
3. Huisinga RL, Houpt P, Dijkstra R, et al. The distally based sural artery flap. Ann Plast Surg. 1998;41:58-65.
4. Al-Qattan MM. A modified technique for harvesting the reverse sural artery flap from the upper part of the leg: inclusion of a gastrocnemius muscle cuff around the sural pedicle. Ann Plast Surg. 2001;47:269-278.
5. Batchelor JS, McGuinness A. A reappraisal of axial and nonaxial lower leg fascial flaps: an anatomic study in human cadavers. Plast Reconstr Surg. 1996;97:993-999.
6. Le Fourn B, Caye N, Pannier M. Distally based sural fasciomuscular flap: anatomic study and application for filling leg or foot defects. Plast Reconstr Surg. 2001;107:67-72.
7. Tsetsonis CH, Kaxira OS, Laoulakos DH, et al. The venous communication between the gastrocnemius muscle heads. Plast Reconstr Surg. 2000;105:1357-1360.
8. Baumeister SP, Spieror R, Erdmann D, et al. A realistic complication analysis of 70 sural artery flaps in a multimorbid patient group. Plast Reconstr Surg. 2003;112:129-140.
9. Bocchi A, Merreli S, Morellini A, et al. Reverse fasciosubcutaneous flap versus distally pedicled sural island flap: two elective methods for distal third leg reconstruction. Ann Plast Surg. 2000;45:284-291.
10. Costa-Ferreira A, Reis AJ, Pinho C, et al. The distally based island superficial sural artery flap: clinical experience with 36 flaps. Ann Plast Surg. 2001;46:308-313.
11. Fraccalvieri M, Vern G, Dolcet M, et al. The distally based superficial sural flap: our experience in reconstructing the lower lea and foot. Ann Plast Surg. 2000;45:132-139.
12. Hasegawa M, Torii S, Kotah H, et al. The distally based superficial sural artery flap. Plast Reconstr Surg. 1994;93:1012-1020.
13. Hollier L, Sharma S, Babigumira E, et al. Versatility of the sural fasciocutanous flap in the coverage of lower extremity wounds. Plast Reconstr Surg. 2002;110:1673-1679.
14. Nakajima H, Imanishi N, Fukuzumi S, et al. Accompanying arteries of the lesser saphenous vein and sural nerve: anatomic study and its clinical applications. Plast Reconstr Surg. 1999;103:104-120.
15. Oberlin C, Azoulay B, Bhatia A. The postero-lateral malleolar flap of the ankle: a distally based sural neurocutaneous flap: report of 14 cases. Plast Reconstr Surg. 1995;96:400-405.
16. Price MF, Capizzi PJ, Watterson PA, et al. Reverse sural artery flap: caveats for success. Ann Plast Surg. 2002;48:496-504.
17. Rajacic N, Darweesh M, Jayakrishnan K, et al. The distally based superficial sural flap for reconstruction of the lower leg and foot. Br J Plast Surg. 1996;49:383-389.
18. Touam C, Rostoucher P, Bhatia A, et al. Comparative study of two series of distally based fasciocutaneous flaps for coverage of the lower one-fourth of the leg, the ankle, and the foot. Plast Reconstr Surg. 2001;107:383-392.
19. Yilmaz M, Karatas O, Barutcu A. The distally based superficial sural artery island flap: clinical experience and modifications. Plast Reconstr Surg. 1998;102:2358-2367.
20. Nakajima H, Imanishi N, Fukuzumi S, et al. Accompanying arteries of the cutaneous veins and cutaneous nerve in the extremities: anatomical study and concept of the venoadipofascial and/or neuroadipofascial pedicled fasciocutaneous flap. Plast Reconstr Surg. 1998;102:779-791.
21. Imanishi N, Nakajima H, Fukuzumi S, et al. Venous drainage of the distally based lesser saphenous sural veno-neuroadipofascial pedicled fasciocutaneous flap: a radiographic perfusion study. Plast Reconstr Surg. 1999;103:494-498.
22. Karacalar A, Idil O, Demir A, et al. Delay in neurovenous flaps: experimental and clinical experience. Ann Plast Surg. 2004;53:481-487.