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Coverage of the Neurovascular Unit of the Fingertip Using a Reverse Homodigital Dorsal Flap
Author(s) -
Rosario Emanuele Perrotta,
Alessio Stivala,
Dario Virzì,
Roberto Grella,
Domenico Pagliara,
Sergio Brongo
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
case reports in surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2090-6900
pISSN - 2090-6919
DOI - 10.1155/2014/315081
Subject(s) - neurovascular bundle , medicine , digital artery , surgery , dorsum , anatomy
The exposure of bone, tendons, vessels, and nerves in a digital defect is one of the most frequent and severe problems to solve in hand surgery and current approaches are still disappointing. We show the use of an homodigital adipofascial flap taken from the same finger for covering the pulpar defect in a one-step surgical technique able to preserve the digital artery.

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