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[Experience of treating firearm-wound in upper limbs with vessel pedicel tissue flap]
Jie Yu1, A-ling He, Gui-wu Zhong
1Department of Orthopedic Surgery, No. 451 Hospital of the PLA, Xi'an Shaanxi, P. R. China, 710054.
Objective:
To study the clinical result of treating firearm-wound with the vessel pedicel tissue flap.
Methods:
From May 1992 to October 2000, 21 cases of firearm-wound of upper limbs underwent transplantation with the vessel pedicel tissue flap. Of them, the locations of the wound were upper arm in 11 cases, forearm in 7 cases, hand in 3 cases. The size of wound was 1.0 cm x 0.5 cm to 8.0 cm x 6.5 cm; the wound course was 3 minutes to 8 hours with an average of 3 hours and 30 minutes. The patients were followed up 3 months to 2 years.
Results:
In 21 cases, the results were excellent in 19 cases and poor in 2 cases. The good rate was 90.5%.
Conclusion:
Treatment of firearm-wound with vessel pedicel tissue flap has the good effect.