[Place of microvascularized tissue transplants in emergency treatment of multiple trauma of the limbs. Excluding reimplantation]

Abstract

When we evoked the indications of microsurgery in Traumatology, at first, we think reimplantations performed in emergency and also secondary management of soft tissues or complex defects. In fact, we resort to microsurgery in many other circumstances. Early microsurgical reconstruction of complex trauma of the extremities yield better results than delayed free flaps. In 7 cases, free flaps were performed on the lower extremities, in 2 cases on the upper extremities. Many advantages are credited with this offensive attitude which requires an appropriate organisation of the Departments of Traumatology, the intimate collaboration of surgeons called orthopedic or plastic surgeons, improperly divided by too administrative compartmentalization of the surgical specialties.