1Assist Professor, Dept of Surgery, MMC, Muzaffarnagar
2Assist Professor, Dept of Anesthesia, Subharti Medical College, Meerut
3Professor, Dept of Surgery, Saraswathi Institute of Medical Sciences, Hapur
4Assist Professor, Dept of Plastic Surgery, AIIMS, Bhopal
Online published on 10 February, 2017.
Limberg's flap is a versatile flap that can be used for various defects in different part of the body in all age groups of patients.
To demonstrate the usefulness of limberg's flap
Patients operated between between Jan 2012 to July 2016 were included in this study. There were no limitations in regards to etiology, location, size, age, sex or any other patient factors.
There were 104 patients who underwent surgical procedures for various reasons, for a total of 120 elevated rhomboid flaps. Seventy eight of the 104 cases were male and the median patient age was 37.5 years.there was only one case of tip necrosis which healed without any secondary procedure
Limberg's rhomboid flap provides for closure of small to large defects at a wide range of anatomical sites, with a high level of safety and predictability and a low index of complications.
Limberg's rhomboid flap, Llimberg's flap, skin defects
