[Soft tissue plastics in treatment of chronic osteomyelitis (author's transl)]

Soft tissue plastics are indispensable in the surgical treatment oft chronic osteomyelitis (56 cases in 10 years). Myoplastics (27 operations) are simple, successful, but only suitable with stabile bones. The treatment of osteomyelitis in the distal parts of the extremities often requires additional skin flaps (25 operations), rarely free skin grafts.