フクナガ　ユタカ   Yutaka Fukunaga   福永　豊    所属   川崎医科大学  医学部 臨床医学　形成外科学    職種   講師
論文種別	原著
言語種別	英語
査読の有無	査読あり
表題	Accompanying artery of sciatic nerve as recipient vessel for free-flap transfer: a computed tomographic angiography study and case reports.
掲載誌名	正式名：Microsurgery 略　 称：Microsurgery ISSNコード：10982752/07381085
掲載区分	国外
巻・号・頁	35(4),pp.284-9
著者・共著者	Shimpei Miyamoto, Yutaka Fukunaga, Masahide Fujiki, Fumihiko Nakatni, Yoshikazu Tanzawa, Minoru Sakuraba
発行年月	2015/05
概要	Suitable recipient vessels for free-flap transfer are hard to find in the posterior thigh. To investigate the versatility of accompanying artery of sciatic nerve as a recipient vessel in this region, we performed computed tomographic angiographic study of 20 consecutive healthy thighs in 10 patients. The presence and internal diameter of the accompanying artery were studied. The accompanying artery of the sciatic nerve was present in 11 thighs (55%) and the internal diameter of the artery at the mid-thigh level ranged from 2.1 to 3.2 mm. We used this artery as a recipient vessel for free flaps transferred to reconstruct extensive thigh defects in three patients with sarcomas. In all patients the flaps survived without vascular compromise. No sensory or motor dysfunction in the sciatic nerve distribution occurred in any patients. We believe that the accompanying artery of the sciatic nerve may be a recipient vessel for free-flap transfer in selected patients.
DOI	10.1002/micr.22324
PMID	25196891