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Importance of the reconstruction of the extensor retinaculum after injury
Motohisa Kawakatsu1, Kozo Ishikawa, Tsutomu Terai
1Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Sumiya Orthopaedic Hospital, Wakayama, Japan. kawakatsu@sumiya.or.jp
Journal of Plastic Surgery and Hand Surgery
|December 14, 2011
Abstract:
We reconstructed an extensive soft tissue defect of the dorsum of the left wrist after an injury using a free anterolateral thigh flap and a tendon graft, and intending to substitute the extensor retinaculum for the fascia in this flap. As a result, maximum function of the extension mechanism was restored to the reconstructed hand.