An early complication in the donor site of the medial sural artery perforator flap: necrosis of the medial head of gastrocnemius

Hui-Ju Tsou; Chih-Peng Tu; Yu-Fan Chen; Wen-Teng Yao

doi:10.1080/23320885.2019.1591279

An early complication in the donor site of the medial sural artery perforator flap: necrosis of the medial head of gastrocnemius

Case Reports Plast Surg Hand Surg. 2019 May 10;6(1):47-50. doi: 10.1080/23320885.2019.1591279. eCollection 2019.

Authors

Hui-Ju Tsou¹, Chih-Peng Tu¹, Yu-Fan Chen¹, Wen-Teng Yao¹

Affiliation

¹ Division of Plastic Surgery, Department of Surgery, MacKay Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan.

Abstract

The relatively new medial sural artery perforator flap is increasingly being used for reconstruction. However, muscle necrosis of the medial head of gastrocnemius after MSAP flap harvest is a previously unnoticed early complication of the donor site. We present two cases of MSAP flap reconstruction that developed this early complication.

Keywords: MSAP flap; early donor site complication; medial head of gastrocnemius.

Publication types

Case Reports