S. Matzke et al., SURVIVAL OF A MICROVASCULAR MUSCLE FLAP DESPITE THE LATE OCCLUSION OFTHE INFLOW ARTERY IN A NEUROISCHAEMIC DIABETIC FOOT - CASE-REPORT, Scandinavian journal of plastic and reconstructive surgery and hand surgery, 31(1), 1997, pp. 71-75
A microsurgical free rectus abdominis nap was connected to a popliteod
istal vascular reconstruction because of a limb-threatening ischaemic
ulcer in an 84 year old diabetic patient. After six months the inflow
vessel occluded, but the flap stayed viable, apparently receiving its
nutrition through newly developed collaterals.