Table 1.
Demographic data, type of the surgery at acute phase, timing, and breakdown of the secondary surgery.
| Case | Age | Sex | Injury | Surgery at acute phase |
Period from flap surgery to secondary surgery | Secondary surgery | Wound healing after second surgery | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| osteosynthesis | Flap | |||||||
| 1 | 33 | Male | Open wrist fracture G-A Type 3C |
Wrist: plating | LD | 6 weeks | Remove plate | No necrosis |
| 2 | 19 | Female | Open lower leg fracture G-A Type 3B |
Tibia: plating fibula: neglect |
LD | 3 months | Plating for fibula |
No necrosis |
| 3 | 44 | Male | Open lower leg fracture G-A Type 3B |
Tibia: plating filling bone cement |
LD | 3 months | Remove cement exchange to nail |
No necrosis |
| 4 | 86 | Female | Pilon fracture infection after surgery |
Tibia: plating filling bone cement |
LD | 3 months | Remove cement bone grafting |
No necrosis |
| 5 | 49 | Male | Open foot fracture G-A Type 3B |
1st metatarsal: plating filling bone cement |
ALT | 4 months | Remove cement bone grafting |
No necrosis |
G-A: Gustilo-Anderson classification.
LD: Free latissimus dorsi myocutaneous flap.
ALT: Free anterolateral thigh flap.