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## Abstract Although increasingly rare, failed microsurgical flaps are a complicated clinical problem when they occur. Review of reports of management following microsurgical flap failure offers an outline of options. A substantial number of breast and extremity patients elect abandonment of reconstruction. The majority of head and neck, breast, and extremity patients proceed to nonmicrosurgical reconstructive options. Head and neck patients (38%) and 35% of extremity patients elect to have second microsurgical flaps, and 84% of these procedures were successful.Patient management following microsurgical flap failure includes strategic abandonment of reconstruction in some cases, use of conventional procedures in a majority of cases, and further microsurgical procedures in one‐third of cases. The reconstructive surgeon should have this range of possibilities available for these difficult cases. © 2009 Wiley‐Liss, Inc. Microsurgery, 2010.

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Author

William Lineaweaver; Ovunc Akdemir; Arno Schleich

Publisher

John Wiley and Sons; Wiley (John Wiley & Sons); John Wiley & Sons Inc.; Wiley (ISSN 0738-1085)

Published

2009

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)