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Ischial Pressure Sore Reconstruction with V-Y Hamstring Advancement Flap Reconstruction

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A 20-year-old college freshman was referred for a nonhealing ischial pressure sore. She had been paraplegic since childhood as a result of resection of a histologically benign spinal cord tumor. She had never previously suffered from pressure ulceration.

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  1. Department of Surgery, Yale-New Haven Hospital, Yale University School of Medicine, CB 228 20 York Street, New Haven, CT, 06504, USA

    Richard S. Stahl M.D., M.B.A. (Associate Chief, Clinical Professor of Surgery)

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Stahl, R.S. (1997). Ischial Pressure Sore Reconstruction with V-Y Hamstring Advancement Flap Reconstruction. In: FLAPS. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1896-8_11

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