Patient-Reported Donor-Site Morbidity Following Anterolateral Thigh Free Flaps
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
This study evaluated donor-site morbidity (retrospective chart review and followup questionnaire) in patients following reconstruction using an anterolateral thigh free flap. Twenty-one flaps were performed in 20 consecutive patients (mean age: 45.0 +/- 3.8 years). Primary wound closure was obtained in 52.4 percent. The perforators were intramuscular in 68 percent and septocutaneous in 32 percent. The early complications included infection (n = 2), wound dehiscence (n = 2), delayed healing (n = 8), and seroma (n = 1). Wound healing took 4.5 +/- 0.7 weeks, and leg weakness resolved completely (n = 13) by 6.6 +/- 2.0 weeks. More chronic complications (n = 19) included weakness (n = 5), pain/tightness (n = 6), contour deformity (n = 14), muscle herniation (n = 6), and unsatisfactory scar appearance (n = 6). No statistically significant differences existed in aesthetics or healing between wound-closure groups, nor in pain or weakness between perforator groups. Pain and weakness were significantly related to sacrifice of the deep fascia from the thigh through its elevation in the flap.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it