Ortho Bullets Podcast - Extremity Flap Reconstruction

The dominant arterial blood supply to a medial gastrochnamious muscle flap is the sural artery. Rotational gastrochnamis flaps are useful for coverage of the proximate third of the tibia and some wounds, slash defects about the knee. The soral artery provides the vascular supply to which muscular cutaneous flap. And the choices are one solius, two gastrochnems, three latismus dorsa, four tibials, anterior and five perineus longus.