TY - JOUR
T1 - Soft tissue and tendon reconstruction after achilles tendon rupture
T2 - Adipofascial sural turnover flap associated with cryopreserved gracilis tendon allograft for complicated soft tissue and achilles tendon losses. A case report and literature review
AU - Parodi, Pier Camillo
AU - Moretti, Loredana
AU - Saggin, Giorgio
AU - De Biasio, Fabrizio
AU - Alecci, Vincenzo
AU - Vaienti, Luca
PY - 2006/7
Y1 - 2006/7
N2 - Achilles tendon rupture is often complicated by skin substance loss around the tendon, which is a poorly-vascularized site. Treatment may be conservative or surgical, but the former is not generally accepted by the orthopedic community and is reserved for selected cases, while surgery remains the mostwidely-used approach. Soft tissue repair at this site is a crucial reconstruction problem, and becomes very complex if skin reconstruction has to be associated with a complex tendon repair. The Authors describe a new approach to the repair of Achilles tendon substance loss compounded by a soft tssue defect, using a cryopreserved gracilis tendon allograft in combination with a distally-based adipofascial sural flap.
AB - Achilles tendon rupture is often complicated by skin substance loss around the tendon, which is a poorly-vascularized site. Treatment may be conservative or surgical, but the former is not generally accepted by the orthopedic community and is reserved for selected cases, while surgery remains the mostwidely-used approach. Soft tissue repair at this site is a crucial reconstruction problem, and becomes very complex if skin reconstruction has to be associated with a complex tendon repair. The Authors describe a new approach to the repair of Achilles tendon substance loss compounded by a soft tssue defect, using a cryopreserved gracilis tendon allograft in combination with a distally-based adipofascial sural flap.
KW - Achilles tendon
KW - Distal leg reconstruction
KW - Foot reconstruction
KW - Sural flap
KW - Tendon allograft
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M3 - Article
C2 - 17139970
AN - SCOPUS:39049177862
VL - 77
SP - 361
EP - 367
JO - Annali Italiani di Chirurgia
JF - Annali Italiani di Chirurgia
SN - 0003-469X
IS - 4
ER -