| Literature DB >> 2734390 |
F A Valauri1, B S Alpert, H J Buncke.
Abstract
We present a patient who sustained bilateral below-knee amputations that were treated with skin grafts as initial coverage. A latissimus dorsi free flap was later used as definitive coverage of one stump. Then at a subsequent operation a portion of the same latissimus dorsi free flap was reharvested, again as a free flap, and transplanted to cover the contralateral stump. Thus one latissimus dorsi free flap was used twice as a free flap (free-flap free flap) to cover bilateral amputation stumps in sequential operations.Entities:
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Year: 1989 PMID: 2734390 DOI: 10.1097/00006534-198907000-00025
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Plast Reconstr Surg ISSN: 0032-1052 Impact factor: 4.730