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KMID : 0358819830100020217
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Journal of Korean Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons
1983 Volume.10 No. 2 p.217 ~ p.224
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CLINICAL APPLICATIONS OF LATISSIMUS DORSI MUSCULOCUTANEOUS
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김수홍/Kim, S.H.
양원용/박철/Yang, W.Y./Park, Cl.
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Abstract
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wounds.
Considerable attention has been directed toward the use of the latissimus dorsi musculoctaneous flap as a pedicle flap or as a free flap.
The latissimus dorsi muscle has its several distinct advantages.
1. It is supplied by a major large sized vessels and also by minor segmental vessels. 2- It has an exceptionally great range of arc of rotation on either blood supply.
3. It has a large unit and quite broad, giving versatility to skin island oriented over it.
4. It is functionally expandable, because its functions are quickly recovered through the
substitution of other muscles.
We treated 5 cases of difficult wounds using with latissimus dorsi musculocutaneous flap from 1980 co 1982 in our hospital: one case of 5th metatarsal bone exposure caused by electrical burn with free flap, one case of post burn scar contractor of axilla with island flap, one case of midline pressur sore of back and two cases of scar contracture of back with "reverse" type rnyo:c Caneous flap.
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