[Surgical treatment of a wound defects of torso and extremities]
Abstract:
The results of examination and treatment of 179 patients, suffering the wound defects, localized on corpus and extremities, were presented. The patients were divided on groups, depending on the etiology of the defect, they were examined in accordance to algorithm proposed. Ultrasound duplex scanning was applied for diagnosis of regional hemodynamics disorders with the objective to choose a correcting intervention and investigation of a donor site vessels. The surgical tactics choice have depended on anatomic-functional and hemodynamical peculiarities of the affected locus present. In all the patient a microbiological monitoring of wounds was conducted and a rational antibioticotherapy prescribed.
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