Abstract
Keystone flaps have demonstrated growing clinical applications in reconstructive surgery in the past decade. This article highlights flap modifications and their versatility for clinical applications and management of complex defects. A retrospective chart review was conducted of consecutive patients undergoing keystone flap reconstruction at the authors' institution from January of 2012 to December of 2014. Patient demographics, indications, and operative and postoperative details were abstracted. Forty-two keystone flaps were performed in 36 patients. Indications included malignant melanoma (n = 14), soft-tissue sarcoma (n = 12), benign pathologic conditions (e.g., exposed hardware, enterocutaneous fistula, tissue necrosis) (n = 6), and nonmelanoma skin cancer (n = 4). Twenty-eight percent received neoadjuvant irradiation, and 70 percent of these were for sarcoma. Locoregional adjunct flaps were performed in eight patients. The deep fascia was nearly completely in a circumferential manner in 18 of 36 patients (50 percent), in 92 percent of the sarcoma reconstructions, and located mainly in the lower extremity. Average defect size was 215 cm (range, 4 to 1000 cm). Average defect size was 474 cm and 35.8 cm after sarcoma and ma...Continue Reading
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