Pediatric Microsurgery
As microsurgical expertise has improved, allowing for the safe transfer of smaller and more refined flaps, free tissue transfer has continued to gain popularity for the management of pediatric soft…
Complex Microsurgical Reconstruction After Tumor Resection in the Trunk and Extremities
Reconstruction of soft tissue defects following tumor ablation procedures in the trunk and extremities can challenge the microsurgeon. The goal is not just to provide adequate soft tissue coverage but…
Compound or Specially Designed Flaps in the Lower Extremities
Novel and combined tissue transfers from the lower extremity provide new tools to combat soft tissue defects of the hand, foot, and ankle, or fracture nonunion. Flaps can be designed…
Vascularized Small-Bone Transfers for Fracture Nonunion and Bony Defects
Vascularized small-bone grafting is an efficient and often necessary surgical approach for nonunion or necrosis of several bones in particular sites of the body, including scaphoid, lunate, distal ulna, and…
Medial Femoral Trochlea Osteochondral Flap
Vascularized osteochondral flaps are a new technique described for the reconstruction of challenging articular defects of the carpus. The medial femoral trochlea osteochondral flap is supplied by the descending geniculate…
Severe Crush Injury to the Forearm and Hand
The main goals of treating severe crush injuries are debriding away devitalized tissue and filling any resultant dead space with vascularized tissue. In the authors’ experience, the most ideal methods…
Exploring New Frontiers of Microsurgery
This article presents the authors’ understanding and experience concerning anatomic studies and clinical methods in microsurgical hand reconstruction. The 4 parts of this article include anatomic study of the hand…
A Global View of Digital Replantation and Revascularization
Survival rates of digital replantation vary in different regions and countries, and Asian surgeons see more challenging cases and have developed some unique methods. Replantation of multiple digits in one…
Microsurgical Technical Training: Differences Between China and the United States
I have been fortunate to work in two different countries in treating hand-related trauma and disorders, in which microvascular anastomosis is sometimes necessary. Though surgeons in both China and United…
Microsurgery Half a Century After Establishment: Global Perspectives
Jin Bo Tang, MD Michel Saint-Cyr, MD, FRCS(C), Editors We are proud to assemble and edit this issue offering global perspectives on microsurgery for the jubilee commemoration of the technical…
