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ArticleJPRAS open2024

Salvage of anterolateral thigh (ALT) flap with indocyanine green assessment of a flap pedicle and subsequent perforator-to-perforator anastomosis.

Petko Shtarbanov, Nianhe Luo, Ahmed Yassin, Dariush Nikkhah

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Article in JPRAS open, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Petko ShtarbanovDivision of Surgery and Interventional Science, University College London, London, United Kingdom.
Nianhe LuoUCL Medical School, University College London, London, United Kingdom.
Ahmed YassinDivision of Surgery and Interventional Science, University College London, London, United Kingdom.
Dariush NikkhahDivision of Surgery and Interventional Science, University College London, London, United Kingdom.

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Abstract

Indocyanine green (ICG) fluorescence angiography has emerged as an intraoperative method to accurately assess real-time tissue vascularity, perfusion and anastomotic patency in flap surgery. We illustrate a complex case of elbow reconstruction in an elderly patient with a free anterolateral thigh flap, which relied on intraoperative ICG to evaluate the flap pedicle and map the site of arterial occlusion. Supermicrosurgical instrumentation was employed to perform complex perforator-to-perforator anastomosis following resection of the vascular site of the lesion. These unique applications in a patient of known surgical risk enabled immediate flap salvage, and after 6 months postoperatively, the flap remained healthy with adequate wound healing.

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ALTElbowICGMicrosurgeryOcclusionSalvage

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PMID39555167
PMCPMC11566872

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