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Sensate Composite Calcaneal Flap in Leg Amputation: a Full Terminal Weight-bearing Surface—experience in Eight Adult Patients by Bruno Livani; Gabriel Castro; Jose Roberto Tonelli Filho; Tâmara Ramos Morgatho; Mauricio Leal Dias Mongon; William Dias Belangero; Michael Davitt; Jose André Carvalho is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.
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Despite modern reconstruction techniques and replantation, the preservation of a severely traumatised limb, or even a limb affected by a congenital malformation, usually gives poorer functional results compared with amputation and prosthetisation. The aim of this study was to describe a hind foot (including the calcaneum and fat pad) sensate flap with a surface that allows full terminal weight bearing in transtibial amputations in adults. Between June 2007 and September 2008, eight patients underwent leg amputations with a sensate composite calcaneal flap reconstruction of the stump. Patients consisted of four men and four women with a mean age of 46.5 (26–66) years. All amputations were unilateral. The mean follow-up was 28.3 (25–42) months. There were no complications. Calcaneum tibial fusion was observed in all patients in a mean time of 3.5 (3–4) months. A below-knee prosthesis was adapted at 16 weeks postoperatively in all cases, and no need for stump revision occurred in this series during the entire follow-up period. A transtibial amputation covered with a sensate plantar flap preserving the calcaneum was proposed. In theory, the anatomic structures spared in this technique
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- Author
- Bruno Livani; Gabriel Castro; Jose Roberto Tonelli Filho; Tâmara Ramos Morgatho; Mauricio Leal Dias Mongon; William Dias Belangero; Michael Davitt; Jose André Carvalho
- Publisher
- Springer Milan; Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishing; Springer Verlag Italia; Milano: Springer Verlag Italia (ISSN 1828-8936)
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Medicine (Health Sciences)