Soleus Transference for Treatment of Chronic Osteomyelitis with Pretibial Skin Loss
10.4055/jkoa.1973.8.4.436
- Author:
Yeub KIM
;
Sung Man ROWE
;
Hyung Soon KIM
- Publication Type:Case Report
- MeSH:
Humans;
Muscle, Skeletal;
Osteomyelitis;
Recurrence;
Skin;
Transplants
- From:The Journal of the Korean Orthopaedic Association
1973;8(4):436-440
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
Chronic osteomyelitis with protracted clinical course and pretibial skin loss imposes on every orthopaedic surgeon as one of the most difficult problems to deal with. All the conservative treatment hitherto reported have left much to be revised and they often accompany, to the despair of both surgeon and patient, recurrence of the lesion. The authors have had the opportunity of treating such four cases, in which the extensive removal of sclerotic bone as well as soft tissue adjacent to the focus was done, and lo cover the defect thus produced, the soleus muscle transferred anteriorly, followed by skin graft. It proves to have been successful and the rationale to meet the wider clinical applicability of this procedure is described.
