Functional Outcome of Free Muscle Flaps Versus Free Skin Flaps for Post-traumatic Foot Plantar Surface Reconstruction

alhussein Ahmed Mahmoud El-Dahshan

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Best Tissue Constituent for Plantar Surface

Treatments: Procedure: plantar surface reconstruction by free flaps

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03152812

salmaalhussein

Details and patient eligibility

About

the investigators are trying to detect what is the best tissue constituent suitable for reconstruction of large post traumatic sof tissue defects of foot plantar surface

Enrollment: 40 estimated patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. Posttraumatic large soft tissue defects of plantar surface requiring free tissue transfer for coverage
2. At any age

Exclusion criteria

1-defects that can be managed by local flaps 2-Non traumatic soft tissue defects

Trial design

40 participants in 2 patient groups

free skin flaps

Treatment:

Procedure: plantar surface reconstruction by free flaps

free muscle flaps

Treatment:

Procedure: plantar surface reconstruction by free flaps