Preservation of a foot by shortening tibial osteotomy after a circumferential electric burn to the leg

Le Nen, D.; Dartoy, C.; Batisse, J.; Lefevre, C.

Journal de Chirurgie 130(6-7): 289-291

1993


ISSN/ISBN: 0021-7697
PMID: 8408328
Document Number: 407929
A patient presented with circumferential loss of skin substance of lower quarter of leg. The patient's advanced age and the poor local conditions could have produced an aleatory result for a flap graft. It was therefore decided to perform a shortening tibial osteotomy as a conservative surgical procedure.

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