Prospective Biomechanical Analysis of Donor-site Morbidity Following Microvascular Fibula Transplantation

Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf

Status: Completed

Conditions: Postoperative Complications

Treatments: Procedure: Fibula Explantation

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02265991

UKEppendorfMKG

Details and patient eligibility

About

Pre- and postoperatively patients who underwent free fibula flap were examined regarding donor-site morbidity of the lower extremities.

Full description

27 patients are examined before and after microsurgical fibula flap performed at the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, University Medical Center Hamburg Eppendorf, Germany.

Enrollment: 27 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Planned continuity interrupting mandible resection
• Planned mandible reconstruction with free fibula flap
• Informed consent
• Procedure performed at University Medical Center Hamburg Eppendorf

Exclusion criteria

• Preexisting pathology/disease of the lower limbs or back (angiologic, neurologic, orthopedic)
• Musculosceletal pain at the time of study enrollment