Zhonghua Zheng Xing Wai Ke Za Zhi
January 2007
Objective: To explore a new method and estimate its outcome to repair deep heel tissue injuries with local tissue flap.
Methods: At lower cnemis, a fat fascial flap combined with perineal tendofascial flap were designed and elevated between the lateral malleolars blank, the largest area is 6 cm x 13 cm, which were transplanted to cover naked calcaneal tendon and calcaneal bone, full-thickness free skin graft or middle-thickness free skin graft were grafted on flap.
Results: 6 patients suffered from heel tissue defects had been treated from January 2004 to November 2005.