One-stage treatment of deep infection following repair of Achilles tendon rupture with flexor hallucis longus transfer.

Lee, Kang; Moon, Jeong Seok; Seo, Jeong Gook; Lee, Woo Chun · Knee Surg Sports Traumatol Arthrosc · 2009

case_report · Level V

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Abstract

We present one-stage treatment of deep infection following repair of Achilles tendon rupture using flexor hallucis longus transfer. Flexor hallucis longus was used not only to connect the defect in Achillles tendon, but also to control the soft tissue infection with its abundant blood supply, simultaneously. The clinical results for the two patients in this report were excellent without major complication.

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