The heel and sole are vital musculoskeketal structures, responsible for weight bearing, shock absoption, and locomotion.
Many reports have been published on the method of reconstructing a skin defect of the posterior heel and plantar heel, that is, ways of skin graft, innervated skin graft, local skin flap, neurovascular skin island flap (local delayed medial plantar, lateral plantar and dorsalis pedis), muscle flap (flexor digitorum brevis), neurovascular free flap (free groin, free dorsalis, free deltoid, free scapular, free Post. arm).
In repair of a defect of the posterior heel, a relatively small, sensory flap is desirable and the lateral calcaneal flap is suitable for this purpose.
The lateral calcaneal flap provides another modality for soft-tissue coverage when there is exposed of the calcaneal tendon or Os calcis on the posterior and/or plantar heel.
There is a short and long version of this flap
We present 3 cases of defects of the posterior heel with a favorable result.
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