When microsurgery is not an option: staged delayed reverse sural artery flap with ischaemic preconditioning for limb salvage in an elderly patient with chronic post-traumatic osteomyelitis—a case report
Lower extremity reconstruction in elderly patients with post-traumatic osteomyelitis presents a formidable challenge. We report a 70-year-old female with hypertension, dyslipidaemia, and bilateral knee osteoarthritis who sustained a Gustilo-Anderson type IIIB open right ankle fracture with exposed calcaneus following a...