Published in Surgery Litigation and Law Weekly, February 19th, 2010
"We present a case of Achilles tendon reconstruction in a patient who had significant soft tissue loss as well as segmental loss of the tendon involving the calcaneal insertion," wrote U. Hansen and colleagues.
The researchers concluded: "The staged reconstructionwas undertaken with a combination of a sural fasciocutaneous flap and an Achilles tendon allograft with an attached calcaneal bone block."
Hansen and colleagues published their...
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