[Clinical applications of the neurocutaneous axial flap pedicled with perforating vessels].

Objective: To report the operative technique and clinical results of the neurocutaneous vascular axial flap with perforating vessels as its pedicle.

Methods: An axial skin flap was designed along the axis of small paraneural vessels that was close to a concomitant cutaneous nerve. The cutaneous perforating branches of major arteries were used as the pedicle, which provided a rotation arc for the flap to cover the defects in the distal site of extremities.