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The authors describe a surgical treatment that optimally combined the use of the hydrosurgical system and a free multiperforator anterolateral thigh flap to prevent lower limb amputation in a severe case of necrotizing fasciitis. A 43-year-old woman was diagnosed with necrotizing fasciitis, and amputation was performed at the level of the metatarsal shafts with an emergency debridement using the hydrosurgical system. In the second reconstructive surgery, a free anterolateral thigh flap mea… Show more
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