[Clinical use of femoro-popliteal axial flap]

Since 1989, soft tissue defects of extremities in 20 patients were treated with the femoropopliteal axial flap. In a follow-up study of 6 to 12 months, satisfactory results with no complication were found in all the cases. This flap can be used as a free neurovascular flap or as an island flap to repair soft tissue defects of the lower limb. In this paper, the anatomy of the donor site and the procedure of operation are described.