Successful Harvest of Free Fibula Flap in a Rare Anomalous Variant of the Peroneal Artery

He Yue; Neil Scott; Zhou Shanghui; M A Kittur

doi:10.1007/s12663-015-0771-8

Successful Harvest of Free Fibula Flap in a Rare Anomalous Variant of the Peroneal Artery

J Maxillofac Oral Surg. 2015 Dec;14(4):1009-12. doi: 10.1007/s12663-015-0771-8. Epub 2015 Mar 14.

Authors

He Yue¹, Neil Scott², Zhou Shanghui¹, M A Kittur²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Shanghai 9th Peoples Hospital, 639 Zhi-zao-ju Road, Shanghai, People's Republic of China.
² Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Morriston Hospital, Swansea, Wales, UK.

Abstract

We present a case of successful harvest and anastomosis of a free fibula flap with 15 cm of bone where the peroneal artery was only 1.0 cm long and situated in the distal 1/3rd of the fibula.

Keywords: Fibula; Peroneal artery; Variant.

Publication types

Case Reports