A Patient with Multiple Unfavorable Reconstruction Options: What Is the Best Choice? |
Hyun June Park, Kyung Min Son<sup><xref ref-type="corresp" rid="cor1">*</xref></sup>, Woo Young Choi, and Ji Seon Cheon |
Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Chosun University College of Medicine, Gwangju, Korea. 8love17@hanmail.net |
Received: 1 November 2016 • Revised: 8 November 2016 • Accepted: 9 November 2016 |
Abstract |
The method of lower limb reconstruction surgery is selected based on a patient’s underlying conditions, general conditions, and wound status, and it usually varies from direct closure to skin graft and flap coverage. Herein, we describe a patient with Duchenne muscular dystrophy who developed critical limb ischemia after femoral cannulation for extracorporeal membrane oxygenation was used during knee disarticulation, which was followed by reconstruction of the defect around the knee using a pedicled anterolateral thigh flap and skin graft. |
Key Words:
Duchenne muscular dystrophy, Surgical flaps, Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation |
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