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Reconstruction of the amputated thumbtip with a narrow pedicled cross-finger flap
A Yanai1, S Nagata, M Mochizuki
1Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, University of Tokyo Hospital, Japan.
Annals of Plastic Surgery
|March 1, 1986
Abstract:
We have achieved favorable results in our reconstruction of fingertips by using a narrow pedicled cross-finger flap, the shape of which resembles that of the so-called flag flap. We applied this technique in several patients with defects of the thumbtip and obtained satisfactory results.