Treatment of foot injury with free medial sural artery perforator muscle flap / 中华全科医师杂志

ABSTRACT

This observation was to assess the treatment effects of free medial sural artery perforator muscle flap on foot reconstruction.Seven patients(6 men,and 1 woman;age 19 to 46 years,mean 33) with soft tissue defects on the foot underwent surgical procedures by using free medial sural artery perforator muscle flap.The coverage of the muscle flaps was performed by a meshed split-thickness skin graft.The donor site Was closed.Median follow-up Was 2.5 years(range 7 monks to 5.5 years).All the muscle flaps and skin grafts survived without major complications,and no morbidity was found at the donor sites.The muscle flaps seem to have advantage in blood supply,vascular anatomy and pedicle length,and may be helpful in the mpmr of soft tissue defects on the foot.