Rotating skin flap for lower leg and foot wounds
Part of Injuries & trauma clinical trials.
This trial tests a surgical technique that rotates a skin flap from the outer side of the lower leg to cover large wounds on the lower leg, ankle, heel, or foot. It may be an option for patients who do not have serious blood flow or healing problems like diabetes or smoking.
Summary written for real people, not researchers, by Clin2.
Who can take part
- You have a wound or missing tissue on the lower leg, ankle, heel, or foot that needs a skin flap to heal.
- The wound is large (usually bigger than 5x5 cm) or has exposed bone, tendon, or joint.
- You have a good pulse in at least one of the main leg arteries at the ankle.
- You do not have diabetes, do not smoke, and do not have peripheral vascular disease (poor blood flow in the legs).
- You do not have a severely shattered shinbone and calf bone.
Quick eligibility check
Answer a few plain-language questions, based on this study's own requirements, to get a preliminary sense of fit.
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