TY - JOUR
T1 - Long-term follow-up of a patient with Romberg's disease reconstructed with free groin flaps
AU - Wakamatsu, Keita
AU - Harashina, Takao
AU - Nakajima, Hideo
AU - Okumoto, Takayuki
PY - 1998/12
Y1 - 1998/12
N2 - Sixteen years ago the result of an operation that was performed on a 5- year-old boy with Romberg's disease was described in this journal. Nineteen years have passed since the first operation, and the authors now report the long-term follow-up. The volume of the transferred free groin flaps was maintained. Although these flaps covered the patient's atrophic tissues as vascularized tissues, these flaps could not normalize the atrophy of the surrounding tissues, especially the bone. As for the orbital content, bony atrophy was more remarkable than the other tissues.
AB - Sixteen years ago the result of an operation that was performed on a 5- year-old boy with Romberg's disease was described in this journal. Nineteen years have passed since the first operation, and the authors now report the long-term follow-up. The volume of the transferred free groin flaps was maintained. Although these flaps covered the patient's atrophic tissues as vascularized tissues, these flaps could not normalize the atrophy of the surrounding tissues, especially the bone. As for the orbital content, bony atrophy was more remarkable than the other tissues.
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U2 - 10.1097/00000637-199812000-00012
DO - 10.1097/00000637-199812000-00012
M3 - Article
C2 - 9869140
AN - SCOPUS:0032431371
SN - 0148-7043
VL - 41
SP - 654
EP - 657
JO - Annals of Plastic Surgery
JF - Annals of Plastic Surgery
IS - 6
ER -