A new method has been introduced to form a functional great toe following amputation. This method has several advantages, especially its simple one-stage operation, which uses a local plantar flap. Results are good from the esthetic and functional point of view. It may be used for traumatic and congenital defects of the great toe. Three cases are presented with illustrations.

Amputation, Traumatic↗

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Surgical correction of lobster-claw feet.

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Child, Preschool↗

PubMed1975

The length: breadth ratio of skin flaps on the trunk: two new long narrow flaps.

Our experience of skin flaps on the trunk is reviewed. A single-pedicle flap based on the sterno-clavicular region and a bipedicled longitudinal back flap have length: breadth ratios much in excess of random pattern flaps.

Abdomen↗

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Philtrum formation in the secondary cleft lip repair.

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Child↗

PubMed1975

Development of the palatal arch in relation to unilateral cleft lip and palate surgery: a comparison of the effects of different surgical approaches.

Our cases are too small in number to conclude which kind of surgical method retards the maxilla development. But we can say that a maldevelopment of the maxilla may be expected to occur in the case of any surgery performed. In the cleft lip only patients, Millard's method and our method show a better effect than the other methods from the point of view of the retardation of the mid-third of the face. In the group of unilateral cleft lip and palate patients our method may be the best on this point. At the end, we would like to present our typical cases with figures (Figures 4 and 5).

Child↗

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