European Journal of Cardiovascular Medicine

Soft tissue defects secondary to hand injuries will involve nerves, tendons, bones with a varying grade, depending the mode of trauma. Hand being the most essential part of the body to carry out day to day activities, it’s defects have to be restored at the earliest to maintain tissue integrity and to allow early rehabilitation. This poses an uphill task to the treating surgeon with respect to type of flap being employed to various types of hand injuries. In our study, the authors present their experience of 25 cases of hand injuries which are being treated with various local flaps with respect to restoration of  optimal functioning hand or any associated complications henceforth. We observed that local flaps provide reasonably good outcome when compared to free flaps which are the standard modality in treating hand injuries. We conclude that the various flaps for hand injuries are  to be selected based on the type of hand injury, degree of soft tissue defects and also the familiarity of the surgeon regarding the particular type of flap.