A Prospective Study of Donor-Site Morbidity after Anterolateral Thigh Fasciocutaneous and Myocutaneous Free Flap Harvest in 220 Patients

Abstract

The anterolateral thigh free flap is associated with a low rate of complications and functional morbidity. Even when the motor nerve to the vastus lateralis is divided, or substantial amounts of thigh fascia or vastus lateralis muscle are included in the flap design, all patients return to their preoperative level of function.