We present a patient who sustained bilateral below-knee amputations that were treated with skin grafts as initial coverage. A latissimus dorsi free flap was later used as definitive coverage of one stump. Then at a subsequent operation a portion of the same latissimus dorsi free flap was reharvested, again as a free flap, and transplanted to cover the contralateral stump. Thus one latissimus dorsi free flap was used twice as a free flap (free-flap free flap) to cover bilateral amputation stumps in sequential operations.
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