1Dept. of Anatomy, SIMS, Hapur.
2Dept. of Anatomy, SBB Dental College, Ghaziabad.
3Dept of Forensic Medicine, Saraswathi Institute of Medical Sciences, Hapur, Uttar Pradesh.
Traumatic skin loss in lower extremity is a taxing problem. Vascular supply to the skin and soft tissue of leg is such that standard rotation and advancement flaps used in other locations frequently fail. The lower third of the tibia, the Achilles tendon and the heel are still difficult areas to be resurfaced. A flap of acceptable proportions that easily survived elsewhere on the body soon became necrotic on the lower limb. Ponten (1981) first used the fasciocutaneous flap which includes skin, subcutaneous tissue and fascia but not muscles, in the area of leg below knee level. The evolution of fasciocutaneous flaps inspired our study on vascular anatomy of superficial planes of leg. After studying the specimens an account has been put forward of the fasciocutaneous arteries,musculocutaneous perforators and septocutaneous vessels.
