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Skin grafting for degloving injury

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degloving with fracture 14 years old boy with trauma.  both leg wounds Add caption Healed wound

Exposed TA and calcaneum and gracillis flap

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wound with bone and tendon exposed lateral aspect of wound gracillis muscle  graciillis muscle with pedicle flap being insetted A very bad crush injury of  ankle occurred while patient was going on motorbike. Heel bone {calcaneaum} was badly crushed, orthopedic surgeon put wires into calcanaeum and  tried to fix it. A big wound remained with exposed Tendo Achillies which needed cover . It was infected and dirty wound so VAC therapy was put on the wound to reduce infection and it was planned to cover it with a flap once it improves. Debate of muscle versus skin flaps will be always be there in plastic surgery . Muscle flaps have inherent advantages in these conditions . So decision was taken to do gracillis flap which was connected to posterior tibial vessels. Artery was connected end to side and a single vein was done. Post op was eventful, flap was monitored for vascularity for five days and then patient being discharged. Patient was...

Sural flap for medial ankle avulsion injury

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healed flap healed flap healed flap pre op wound post op healed flap post op healed flap 10 year old boy had a accident which resulted in total loss of medial side soft tissue. Resultant defect was managed with sural flap. Which healed nicely. Dr Adhishwar Sharma 8860650846 adhishwar7@gmail.com