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Emma Loy1, David G Williamson2, J Scott Williamson2
1Island Medical Program, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Victoria, Canada.
Case Reports in Plastic Surgery & Hand Surgery
|April 18, 2022
Abstract:
Spare-parts surgery in traumatic amputation sources tissue from the amputated part to cover the residual amputation defect. This case describes a trauma patient requiring below-elbow amputation. Stump closure was accomplished with a pedicled fillet flap derived from the still-attached hand, avoiding donor site morbidity and maximizing stump length.

