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The Use of Bipedicled Flaps in the Management of Pretibial Skin Defects
Author(s) -
ElFalaky M. H.
Publication year - 1972
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.111
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1445-2197
pISSN - 0004-8682
DOI - 10.1111/j.1445-2197.1969.tb06304.x
Subject(s) - medicine , surgery , thigh , pathological , pathology
Chronic ulceration or recurrent ulceration of scar tissue in the pretibial area can be a major problem. The operation to be described affords a safe and satisfactory method of covering the raw area left after excision of pathological tissue in this region by bipedicled full‐thickness grafts brought forward from the medial and lateral aspects of the leg. The resultant defect over the calf is covered by bringing across a free skin graft from the opposite thigh.