Adrian Matthias Vater, Lukas Prantl, Moritz Noll, Laura Lech, Michael Jakubietz, Karsten Schmidt, Ralph Kickuth, Rainer Meffert, Rafael Jakubietz
Microsurgical free flap transfer plays a key role in soft tissue reconstruction of the lower extremities. Through close cooperation between plastic and orthopedic surgery, great progress and success in limb salvage could be achieved over the last decades. The risk for extremity malperfusion is especially high in older patients and after trauma. To maximize the success rate for free flap transfer there is need for interdisciplinary clinical examination and diagnostics. In addition to clinical methods radiological procedures are necessary to evaluate and optimize lower extremity perfusion before surgery...
March 16, 2021: Der Unfallchirurg