Successful detachment of cross-leg fasciocutaneous flaps on the tenth day: a report of 10 cases.

A series of 10 patients is presented in whom cross-leg fasciocutaneous flaps were detached on the tenth day without any subsequent complication or loss. All the flaps were designed with a distal fascial extension that might have helped neovascularisation of the flap. The paper also includes a description of the nature of the fasciocutaneous flap in the leg, comments on the neovascularisation of flaps and a brief analysis of the economics of a skin flap transfer.