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Journal of the Korean Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons 2006;33(6):784-788.
Published online November 1, 2006.
Lateral Supramalleolar Fasciocutaneous Island Flap for Reconstruction of the Foot and Ankle Soft Tissue Defect.
Jae Hoon Choi, Nam Gyun Kim, Tae Hyun Choi, Kyung Suk Lee, Joon Sik Kim
Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, College of Medicine, Gyeongsang National University, JinJu, Korea. pellow@hanmail.net
Abstract
PURPOSE
For the reconstruction of the ankle joint as well as the soft tissue defect in the distal lower leg, a free flap or a local flap has been used, and because of the condition of patients, if a complex microvascular surgery under general anesthesia could not be performed, it could be reconstructed by using the distally based lateral supramalleolar fascio-cutaneous island flap using the perforating branch of the peroneal artery in the ankle area. METHODS: The study subjects were 4 male patients between 53 years and 73 years of age. 2 cases were tissue defect in the medial malleolus area due to systemic diseases such as gouty arthritis accompanied traffic accident, diabetes mellitus foot, atherosclerotic obliterans, etc., 1 case was the defect in the pretibia area, and 1 case was the defect underneath the lateral malleolus, which was reconstructed by the distally based lateral supramalleolar fascio-cutaneous island flap. The donor area was the skin harvested from the groin , and the full thickness skin graft was performed. The size of the flap varied from 4 X 3 cm to 9 X 6 cm. As the flap border, the medial side was to the tibialis anterior tendon, the lateral side was to the fibula crest, and the proximal area was less than the fibula size.
RESULTS
The consequence is that, in total 4 cases, the congestion in the flap began from 12 hours after the surgery, and the progression of congestion was ceased on the 5th day after the surgery, and finally epidermal bulla and sloughing, partial necrosis was developed. After the end of necrosis, the defect area was reconstructed successfully by the second full thickness skin graft.
CONCLUSION
Although the distally based lateral supramalleolar fascio-cutaneous island flap has the shortcoming of requiring the second skin graft, it has the advantages that it does not require a long complex microsurgery, the flap itself is thin, it is similar to the color of the skin in the recipient area, and it does not leave a big scar in the donor area. Therefore, it is thought that for the cases who could not undergo a long complex surgery due to systemic diseases or the cases of patients whose condition of the recipient area is not suitable for microsurgery, the lateral supramalleolar fascio-cutaneous island flap is very useful for the reconstruction of the distal lower leg and the ankle joint area.
Keywords: Supramalleolar flap; Reverse island flap; Systemic disease
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