A 41-year-old male (BMI 51.8), one year prior, had a traffic injury, and had an 18-cm contusion in his right leg. Six months later, lymph leakage in a 14 cm × 8 cm region and a 5 cm × 3 cm skin ulcer occurred in the center of the wound. We made a diagnosis of lymphedema resulting from obesity, accompanied with lymphorrhea and intractable ulcer. He was unable to reach his legs owing to obesity, making complex physical therapy impossible. We performed LVA under local anesthesia. The lymphorrhea

healed 2 weeks after the operation and had not recurred 3 months after the operation. The leg lymphedema improved after the surgery without the compression therapy. In cases of intractable ulcers, suspected of being caused by lymphostasis, treatments indicated for lymphedema, for example MK 1775 LVA, may possibly allow satisfactory wound healing. © 2013 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microsurgery 34:64–67, 2014. “
“The free flap failure rate for the lower extremities is high, which adversely affects limb salvage efforts. In this article, we report a case of failure of a thoracodorsal artery perforator flap, which was simultaneously reconstructed with a serratus anterior muscle flap from the same donor site. A 56-year-old male patient had infected wound for 3 months due to Achilles tendon rupture. We reconstructed the defect

using a thoracodorsal artery perforator flap. However, 2 days after Saracatinib the operation, we found the congested flap. We were obliged to discard the whole flap and harvested a serratus anterior muscle flap from the same donor site. The patient’s foot healed uneventfully. After flap failure, the use of a second free flap from the same donor site may be an

effective and safe procedure in specific cases. © 2013 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microsurgery 34:153–156, 2014. “
“The use of microvenous anastomoses Liothyronine Sodium by double ring eversion system is a reliable technique that reduces coupling time, ischemic time of the flap and enables to anastomose veins of different sizes.[1-3] Venous thrombosis rate is lower than manual suture’s one.[3] Although end-to-end anastomosis using an Anastomotic Coupling Device has been widely described, end-to-side anastomosis we are sometimes facing, is much less experienced.[4, 5] We report an innovative surgical technique of end-to-side coupling of rings with star drawn phlebotomy and flower’s petals shape eversion. The anastomosis is performed under microscope with a six times magnification rate using a microscope and microsurgery equipment. Two operators are required. Following a felt-pen marking, we perform a star shaped incision on the recipient vein (Fig. 1). The diameter of the star matches with the diameter of the distal end of the vein to be anastomosed. The number of branches of the star is equal to the number of peaks on the anastomotic system ring. The latter depends on the diameter of the ring which will be selected according to the size of the vein to be anastomosed.