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A skin flap from the medial leg based on the posterior tibial artery and its cutaneous branches was first described by Zhang and colleagues in 1983 [1].
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Hou, C., Chang, S., Lin, J., Song, D. (2015). Posterior Tibial Artery Perforator Flap. In: Surgical Atlas of Perforator Flaps. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9834-1_24
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