- 作者：Ehab Mostafa Mohamed El Zawawy ; ehabzawawy@gmail.com ; Nancy Mohamed El Sekily nancyelsekily@yahoo.com
- 关键词：Soleus ; Perforators ; Flap ; Popliteal ; Posterior tibial ; Peroneal
- 刊名：Alexandria Journal of Medicine
- 出版年：2012
- 出版时间：December, 2012
- 年：2012
- 卷：48
- 期：4
- 页码：315-321
- 全文大小：1441 K
Introduction
The soleus muscle is a powerful plantar flexor of the ankle joint and receives its blood supply from several different sources.Aim
This study was done to describe the distribution of the arterial supply of the soleus muscle.
Materials and methods
The study was carried out at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Alexandria. Forty limbs were dissected, which included specimens from both male and female cadavers. The pattern of arterial supply of the soleus muscle and the distribution of the perforators were studied.
Results
The soleus muscle is supplied by perforators of the popliteal, posterior tibial and peroneal arteries, the posterior tibial artery gave 38.80 % of total perforators while the peroneal artery gave 33.30 % of total perforators and the popliteal artery gave 27.80 % of total perforators. Perforators of popliteal artery were larger; 12.9 ¡À 2.07 cm in length and 2.55 ¡À 0.214 mm in diameter while those of the posterior tibial artery had a length of 5.1 ¡À 0.99 cm and a diameter of 1.93 ¡À 0.25 mm and perforators of the peroneal artery had a length of 3.8 ¡À 0.98 cm and a diameter of 1.49 ¡À 1.03 mm.
Conclusion
The soleus muscle is richly supplied by many arterial pedicles and can be used safely as a free flap, hemisoleus flap or composite flap to cover defects in the lower limb.