Experience of using local flaps to cover open lower limb injuries at an Indian trauma center.

Optimal care of open, high-velocity, lower limb injury requires surgical skills in debridement, skeletal stabilization, and in providing appropriate soft tissue cover. Timely coordination between orthopedic and plastic surgeons, though ideal, is often difficult. In our center, orthopedic surgeons undertake comprehensive treatment of open fractures including soft tissue cover. We reviewed the results of the local flaps of lower limb, done by orthopedic surgeons. Boopalan PR, Nithyananth M, Titus VT, Cherian VM, Jepegnanam TS. J Emerg Trauma Shock. 2011 Jul;4(3):325-9. PMID: 21887018