Urethral reconstruction using a prefabricated pedicled gracilis flap
Curtis Crane1, Agustin Cornejo, Robert Lyons
1Department of Plastic Surgery, 7703 Floyd Curl Dr, San Antonio, TX 78229, USA. cnd51924@yahoo.com
Annals of Plastic Surgery
|July 14, 2012
Abstract:
This case study describes a patient who experienced an iatrogenic urethral injury because of a Fournier gangrene debridement. Because of the extent of the debridement, which resected all penile and scrotal dartos tissue, no local flaps that would typically be used to reconstruct a urethral disruption were possible. The authors chose to use a prefabricated pedicled gracilis flap to restore urethral continuity.

