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Patient Height, Weight, BMI and Age as Predictors of Gracilis Muscle Free-Flap Mass in Lower Extremity Reconstruction

CARLO M. ORANGES, MATHIAS TREMP, WENJIN WANG, SRINIVAS MADDURI, PIETRO G. DI SUMMA, RETO WETTSTEIN, DIRK J. SCHAEFER and DANIEL F. KALBERMATTEN
In Vivo May 2018, 32 (3) 591-595;
CARLO M. ORANGES
1Department of Plastic, Reconstructive, Aesthetic and Hand Surgery, Basel University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland
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MATHIAS TREMP
1Department of Plastic, Reconstructive, Aesthetic and Hand Surgery, Basel University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland
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WENJIN WANG
2Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Shanghai Ninth People's Hospital, Shanghai, P.R. China
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SRINIVAS MADDURI
1Department of Plastic, Reconstructive, Aesthetic and Hand Surgery, Basel University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland
3Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
4Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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PIETRO G. DI SUMMA
5Department of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery, Lausanne University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland
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RETO WETTSTEIN
1Department of Plastic, Reconstructive, Aesthetic and Hand Surgery, Basel University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland
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DIRK J. SCHAEFER
1Department of Plastic, Reconstructive, Aesthetic and Hand Surgery, Basel University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland
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DANIEL F. KALBERMATTEN
1Department of Plastic, Reconstructive, Aesthetic and Hand Surgery, Basel University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland
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    Gracilis muscle free flap used for lower extremity reconstruction (a, b, lower leg; c, d, foot). The excess of muscle is resected to adapt the flap to the defect area (b, d) in large (e I) or small fragments (e II).

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    Plot of gracilis muscle mass versus patient height. A moderate correlation between the variables is shown (r=0.4, p=0.07).

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    Plot of gracilis muscle mass versus patient weight. A moderate correlation between the variables is shown (r=0.4, p=0.06).

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    Plot of gracilis muscle mass versus body mass index (BMI). A moderate correlation between the variables is shown (r=0.3, p=0.19).

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    Plot of gracilis muscle mass versus age. A moderate negative correlation between the variables is shown (r=−0.04, p=0.86).

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CARLO M. ORANGES, MATHIAS TREMP, WENJIN WANG, SRINIVAS MADDURI, PIETRO G. DI SUMMA, RETO WETTSTEIN, DIRK J. SCHAEFER, DANIEL F. KALBERMATTEN
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