A series of 28 neurovascular island flaps are presented together with a series of three radial innervated pedicled flaps. The former method gave superior results compared to the latter. The mean follow-up period was 4.3 years. All the flaps survived and 21 of the neurovascular flaps were classified good to excellent, 4 cases gave fair results and in three cases the result was classified poor. Only one of the neural pedicled radial innervated flaps could be classified as fair whereas both of the others gave poor results. The neurovascular island flap method is regarded a valuable alternative to a tree vascularized composite tissue graft.
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