• Department of Spinal Surgery;;
  • Lanzhou General Hospital of PLA. Lanzhou Gansu;;
  • P.R.China 730050;
Combined skin flap; Soft tissue defect; Microvascular anastomosis
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OBJECTIVE To investigate the clinical result in repair of soft tissue defect with combined skin flap vascularized by pedicle on the one end and vascular anastomosis on the other end. METHODS From October 1990 to August 1995, 5 cases with soft tissue defect at the extremities and 1 cases with sacral bed sore were repaired by the combined skin flaps transfer, ranged from 15 cm x 30 cm to 16 cm x 70 cm in defect, among them, 5 cases with myocutaneous flap and 1 case with skin flap, and the size of the combined skin flaps was 15 cm x 40 cm to 12 cm x 80 cm. RESULTS All the flaps were survived with satisfactory effect. Followed up 3 to 6 years, there was no obvious complication. CONCLUSION Transfer of combined skin flaps vascularized by pedicle and vascular anastomosis is suitable to repair the soft tissue defect, especially in large area defect.

Citation： ZHANG Gong lin,GE Bao feng,JING Hao,et al.. REPAIR OF SOFT TISSUE DEFECT WITH COMBINED SKIN FLAP. Chinese Journal of Reparative and Reconstructive Surgery, 2000, 14(1): 17-19. doi: Copy