Fingertips are very useful in social expression, exploration, and hand protection. Injuries affecting this part of the hand require a protective functional restoration which in multiple digital involvements requires the use of larger flap options mainly from the abdominal wall and chest wall. The use of the Atasoy flap is mainly for solitary cases. This report aims to show the successful use of the Atasoy flap to reconstruct multiple fingertip injuries. We present a right-handed adolescent male who sustained multiple fingertip injuries to the middle, ring, and little fingers, and extensor zone 1 injury of the thumb of the left hand from a milling machine accident. He had fingertip reconstruction with Atasoy flap on a single theatre session with a satisfactory outcome. Atasoy flaps which afforded the obvious advantage of replacing like with like and avoided additional wounds endeared this option to both the surgeon and the patient.
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