Novel Surgical Treatment for Refractory Heel Ulcers in Werner’s Syndrome
Patients with Werner’s syndrome frequently develop chronic leg ulcers that heal poorly. We present a patient who suffered from this rare syndrome and developed typical heel ulcers. Treatment of the ulcer is challenging, as flap options are limited over the lower third of the leg and skin grafting is...
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| author | Keisuke Oe Masahiko Miwa Yoshitada Sakai Masahiro Kurosaka |
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| description | Patients with Werner’s syndrome frequently develop chronic leg ulcers that heal poorly. We present a patient who suffered from this rare syndrome and developed typical heel ulcers. Treatment of the ulcer is challenging, as flap options are limited over the lower third of the leg and skin grafting is not easy as there is a lack of healthy granulations. We successfully treated the ulcer with osteomyelitis by drilling the bone and applying an ultrathin split thickness skin graft with the thigh skin as the donor site. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-234c1547aa864f73af87286585298dd12025-02-03T06:42:08ZengWileyCase Reports in Orthopedics2090-67492090-67572013-01-01201310.1155/2013/287025287025Novel Surgical Treatment for Refractory Heel Ulcers in Werner’s SyndromeKeisuke Oe0Masahiko Miwa1Yoshitada Sakai2Masahiro Kurosaka3Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, 7-5-2 Kusunoki-cho, Chuo-ku, Kobe Hyogo 650-0017, JapanDepartment of Orthopedic Surgery, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, 7-5-2 Kusunoki-cho, Chuo-ku, Kobe Hyogo 650-0017, JapanDepartment of Orthopedic Surgery, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, 7-5-2 Kusunoki-cho, Chuo-ku, Kobe Hyogo 650-0017, JapanDepartment of Orthopedic Surgery, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, 7-5-2 Kusunoki-cho, Chuo-ku, Kobe Hyogo 650-0017, JapanPatients with Werner’s syndrome frequently develop chronic leg ulcers that heal poorly. We present a patient who suffered from this rare syndrome and developed typical heel ulcers. Treatment of the ulcer is challenging, as flap options are limited over the lower third of the leg and skin grafting is not easy as there is a lack of healthy granulations. We successfully treated the ulcer with osteomyelitis by drilling the bone and applying an ultrathin split thickness skin graft with the thigh skin as the donor site.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/287025 |
| spellingShingle | Keisuke Oe Masahiko Miwa Yoshitada Sakai Masahiro Kurosaka Novel Surgical Treatment for Refractory Heel Ulcers in Werner’s Syndrome Case Reports in Orthopedics |
| title | Novel Surgical Treatment for Refractory Heel Ulcers in Werner’s Syndrome |
| title_full | Novel Surgical Treatment for Refractory Heel Ulcers in Werner’s Syndrome |
| title_fullStr | Novel Surgical Treatment for Refractory Heel Ulcers in Werner’s Syndrome |
| title_full_unstemmed | Novel Surgical Treatment for Refractory Heel Ulcers in Werner’s Syndrome |
| title_short | Novel Surgical Treatment for Refractory Heel Ulcers in Werner’s Syndrome |
| title_sort | novel surgical treatment for refractory heel ulcers in werner s syndrome |
| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/287025 |
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