From the Departments of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine and Dentistry, Okayama University, Japan.
Received September 21, 2002 and
in revised form December 13, 2002.
Accepted for publication December 13, 2002.
Address correspondence and reprint requests to Dr Koshima, Professor and Chief, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine and Dentistry, Okayama University, 2-5-1, Shikata, Okayama City, Okayama, 701-8558 Japan.
Presented in part at the First and Second International Courses on Perforator Flaps, Gent, Belgium, June 1997; and in New Orleans, LA, November 1998.
Supported in part by a grant from the Scientific Councils of the Japanese Ministry of Health and Welfare.
Koshima I, Nanba Y, Tsutsui T, Takahashi Y. New anterolateral thigh perforator flap with a short pedicle for reconstruction of defects in the upper extremities.
