Heel deep tissue defects were repaired by perineal tendofascial flap conjoined with adipofascial flap / 中华整形外科杂志

ABSTRACT

<p><b>OBJECTIVE</b>To explore a new method and estimate its outcome to repair deep heel tissue injuries with local tissue flap.</p><p><b>METHODS</b>At lower cnemis, a fat fascial flap combined with perineal tendofascial flap were designed and elevated between the lateral malleolars blank, the largest area is 6 cm x 13 cm, which were transplanted to cover naked calcaneal tendon and calcaneal bone, full-thickness free skin graft or middle-thickness free skin graft were grafted on flap.</p><p><b>RESULTS</b>6 patients suffered from heel tissue defects had been treated from January 2004 to November 2005. The smallest area was 3.5 cm x 4.0 cm and the largest was 4 cm x 6 cm. All fascial flaps and free skin grafts were successfully survived after operations. All patients were followed up 3-23 months, the operation areas were healed, the functions and configurations were satisfied.</p><p><b>CONCLUSIONS</b>Perineal tendofascial flap conjoined with adipofasical flap and free skin graft are used to repair heel deep tissue defects, which is a handy, dependable way for repairing of the small tissue defects of the lower third of leg and heel.</p>