Transposition of pedicled skin flaps in the hand
Telaranta, T.; Solonen, K.A.
Annales Chirurgiae et Gynaecologiae 71(1): 51-55
1982
ISSN/ISBN: 0355-9521 PMID: 7092126 Document Number: 187127
A series of 28 neurovascular island flaps are presented together with a series of 3 radial innervated pedicled flaps. The former method gave superior results compared to the latter. The mean follow-up period was 4.3 yr. All the flaps survived and 21 of the neurovascular flaps were classified good to excellent, 4 cases gave fair results and in 3 cases the result was classified poor. Only 1 of the neural pedicled radial innervated flaps could be classified as fair; both of the others gave poor results. The neurovascular island flap method is regarded a valuable alternative to a free vascularized composite tissue graft.