2. INTRODUCTION
Hand is an organ where
skin envelope covers
multiple tendons, nerves,
vessels, bones and joints
For proper function this
envelope has to be elastic
and non adherent and
large enough to allow
freedom of motion
6. GOALS OF RECONSTRUCTION
Restoration of functional, sensate and aesthetically acceptable
hand
7. PRINCIPLES
Coverage always follows proper debridement & skeletal
stabilization
Achieve Primary wound healing
(To minimize contracture and joint stiffness)
Palmar skin - Palmar defects require thick, sensate
glabrous skin for resurfacing, to withstand pressure and
friction while grasp and pinch
Dorsal skin - Thinner , more elastic and loose enough to
allow flexion at joints
8. Palmar Defect
Multiple septal fibers and Grayson and
Cleland’s ligaments compartmentalize the
fat pads and neurovascular bundles and
mobilization of volar flaps require
division of these
Patients with thick palmar skin are not
ideal candidates for extensive volar
dissection
Large pulp defects in the thumb and
radial side of index may warrant
heterodigital island flap for sensate
reconstruction despite the donor
morbidity.
9. Dorsal Defect
Skin grafting over the dorsum
often results in adherence and
limited finger flexion.
Dorsal transposition flaps are
ideal for resurfacing.
Aesthetic considerations of color
matching and contour can be
important to the patient as this is
the exposed surface of the hand.
15. Options for
coverage of
Hand Defects
Secondary
intension
Amputation
Primary
Closure
Skin graft
STG
FTG
flap
Pedicled
Free
Local
Regional
Distant
16. Local flaps
Transposition
Random
Type 1
Type 2
Axial
Flag
FDMA
(Kite/Foucher)
SDMA
Digital artery
island flap
Rotation
Advancement
Moberg
V-Y
Atasoy
kutler
17. Regional flaps
Random
Cross Finger
Classic
Reversed
Innervated
Thenar
Axial
Neurovascular
island flap
Fillet flap
Forearm flaps
Reverse radial
forearm
Reverse ulnar
forearm
Post.
Interrosseous
Dorsal Ulnar
85.
Fingertip reconstruction
<0.5cm2 no bone exposed healing by epithelialization
0.5-1cm2 no bone exposed FTSG
bone exposed VY plasty
1-2cm2 Homodigital island flap
Moberg flap for thumb
2-5cm2 Cross finger flap or reverse flow
digital island flap Heterodigital island flap for thumb