Supermicrosurgery in Lower Extremity Reconstruction

Supermicrosurgery is defined as microsurgery working on vessels less than 0.8 mm, allowing applications in smaller-dimension microsurgery, such as lymphedema, minimal invasive reconstruction, small parts replantation, and application of perforator as recipient. To accommodate this technique, developments and use of finer instruments, smaller sutures, new diagnostic tools, and higher-magnification microscopes have been made. Although supermicrosurgery has evolved naturally from microsurgery, it has developed into a unique field based on different thinking and tools to solve problems that once were difficult to solve.