Journal of Bone and Joint Infection
Journal of Bone and Joint Infection
JBJI
Articles | Volume 6, issue 9
Articles | Volume 6, issue 9
https://doi.org/10.5194/jbji-6-425-2021
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https://doi.org/10.5194/jbji-6-425-2021
© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 6, issue 9
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23 Nov 2021
Original full-length article |  | 23 Nov 2021

Outcomes of the gastrocnemius flap performed by orthopaedic surgeons in salvage revision knee arthroplasty

Robert Allan McCulloch, Amirul Adlan, Scott Evans, Michael Parry, Jonathan Stevenson, and Lee Jeys

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This paper presents a series of patients with complex periprosthetic joint infection of the knee and concomitant soft tissue defects managed with revision knee surgery and a gastrocnemius flap. We show that this flap can be safely performed by appropriately trained orthopaedic surgeons and confirmed the previous literature findings that patients presenting with this problem have high rates of persistent infection.
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