ARTICLE TYPE OF STUDY NUMBER OF PATIENTS TYPE OF FLAP MEAN FOLLOW-UP (months)
Salibian AH 1983 V 1 Medial and lateral gastrocnemius /
Greenberg B 1989 IV 10 Medial and lateral gastrocnemius 24
Siim E 1991 IV 18 Medial and lateral gastrocnemius; Fasciocutaneous flap; Mesh graft 68
Gerwin M 1993 IV 12 Medial gastrocnemius 53
Browne EZ Jr 1994 IV 9 Medial gastrocnemius; Latissimus dorsi; Rectus abdominis 26
MarkovichGD 1995 IV 12 Medial gastrocnemius; latissimus dorsi; rectus abdominis 47.6
McPherson EJ 1997 IV 21 Medial and lateral gastrocnemius 16.8
Nahabedian MY 1999 IV 28 Medial and lateral gastrocnemius; Rectus abdominis; Fasciocutaneous flaps 69
Casanova D 2001 IV 10 Medial and lateral gastrocnemius 7
Hallock GG 2003 IV 2 Medial gastrocnemius /
Busfield BT 2004 IV 9 Medial gastrocnemius /
Stiehl JB 2004 V 1 Medial gastrocnemius 12
Ries MD 2006 IV 12 Medial gastrocnemius 28
Cetrulo CL Jr 2008 IV 11 Latissimus dorsi; Rectus abdominis /
Hierner R 2009 IV 14 Latissimus dorsi 34.6
Boopalan PR 2009 V 1 Medial and lateral gastrocnemius 18
Whiteside LA 2012 III 18 Vastus medialis and lateralis (2 combined with gastrocnemius) 27
Pozzobon LR 2013 IV 9 Medial gastrocnemius /
Corten K 2013 IV 24 Medial and lateral gastrocnemius 54
Jung JA 2013 IV 1 Reverse gracilis muscle flap 12
Suda AJ 2014 IV 25 Medial and lateral gastrocnemius; Latissimus dorsi 3
Tetreault MW 2016 IV 27 Medial gastrocnemius 48
Warren IV 26 Medial and lateral gastrocnemius 39
Ong SW 2019 IV 10 Combined gastrocnemius and hemi-soleus 12
Yusof MN 2019 IV 12 Medial and lateral gastrocnemius /
Saaiq M 2020 V 1 Medial and lateral gastrocnemius /
Moog P 2020 IV 20 Medial gastrocnemius /
Huang K 2020 V 1 Medial and lateral gastrocnemius 12