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Heel Reconstruction with a Medial Plantar V-Y Flap

2007· article· en· W2010311809 on OpenAlex
Paul Roblin, Ciaran Healy

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Bibliographic record

VenuePlastic & Reconstructive Surgery · 2007
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicReconstructive Surgery and Microvascular Techniques
Canadian institutionsSt. Thomas Hospital
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMedicineHeelSurgeryReconstructive SurgeonDehiscenceGaitWound dehiscenceSensationSkin graftingFoot (prosody)AnatomyPhysical medicine and rehabilitation

Abstract

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BACKGROUND: Full-thickness defects to the plantar surface of the foot present a challenge to the reconstructive surgeon. Skin grafts and a variety of flap procedures have been described to resurface this site, but not all achieve a return to normal foot function. For the plantar surface of the heel, the previously described medial plantar flap can produce successful results. However, this method leaves a donor site, which requires skin grafting. This is a report of a modification of the medial plantar flap into a V-Y configuration that allows direct closure of the donor site. METHODS: Three defects of the plantar surface of the heel were resurfaced: case 1, a spina bifida patient with a 45-mm-wide debrided pressure sore; and cases 2 and 3, patients with defects resulting from wide excisions of melanomas that were 47 and 57 mm wide, respectively. Patients in cases 2 and 3 were reviewed at 1 year for mobility, gait, and sensation in the flap. RESULTS: The patients in cases 2 and 3 were able to attain full, unrestricted mobility and objectively near-normal sensation of the resurfaced skin. In the patient in case 1, a problematic pressure sore was healed after an intermediate period of wound dehiscence, with a robust, bulky flap. CONCLUSIONS: This modified flap retains the advantages of the traditional medial plantar flap while minimizing its donor-site problems. It has permitted satisfactory long-term functional results, optimizing restoration of foot function, and is a useful option that can be considered for resurfacing the problematic plantar surface of the heel.

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Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.398
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

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Opus teacher head0.013
GPT teacher head0.232
Teacher spread0.219 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it