Publications by authors named "G Paleu"

Introduction: Complete hand degloving injuries are traumatic avulsion injuries causing the skin to pull away from the underlying tissues and are most often caused by industrial machinery. We present the case of a degloving trauma of the whole fingers, hand, and wrist resulting in a "watch hand" by analogy with the "ring finger" and discuss alternatives and recommendations from the rare cases described of similar traumas.

Case Presentation: A 33-year-old manual worker, a non-smoker with no significant medical or surgical comorbidities, was admitted for a complete skin avulsion of the left hand and wrist following a work-related accident with a trommel-type industrial roller.

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We report on using a pedicled posterior brachial perforator flap to cover a defect of the infraspinous fossa. The first description of the posterior brachial flap came from Masquelet in 1985, and there are very few reports of this flap in the literature, mainly in its pedicled form limited to axillary covers. Scapular soft tissue defect with bone exposure can be covered by several techniques.

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Introduction: Despite the progress in microsurgery in recent decades, neurovascular bundle defects during ring finger injuries still pose challenges for the surgeon. Usually, a reversed venous graft and a non-vascularized nerve graft are utilized to reconstruct this defect. One of the most common challenges encountered when using a venous graft is the caliber mismatch between the graft and the digital arterial ends.

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