Table 1 Baseline characteristics of the patients.

From: Local muscle or myocutaneous flap transfer for emergent repair of Gustilo IIIB open tibiofibular fractures

Patient ID

Age (yrs)

Sex

Cause

Location of defect

MESS score

Soft tissue cover

Hospital stay (days)

VAC

Definitive fixation method

Bone defect length (cm)/volume (cm3)

Skin defect area (cm)

Complication

Johner-Wruhs score

1

19

M

Traffic accident

R

6

MGMF

23

Y

E-X

5/21.5

10 × 6

None

Excellent

2

35

M

Machine crush injury

R

5

SMF

11

N

IMN

0

5 × 4

None

Excellent

3

46

M

Machine crush injury

L

5

MGF

33

N

E-X

2/11

7 × 3

None

Excellent

4

28

F

Traffic accident

L

6

MGF

25

N

E-X

4/21.4

3 × 6

None

Excellent

5

40

M

Traffic accident

L

6

SMF

26

Y

E-X

5/25.6

13 × 5

None

Excellent

6

59

F

Machine crush injury

L

5

MGF

35

N

E-X

3/13

14 × 6

None

Good

7

43

F

Machine crush injury

R

7

MGF

50

N

E-X

11/37.3

20 × 7

Poor bone healing

Fair

8

33

M

Traffic accident

R

5

SMF

25

Y

LCP

0

11 × 6

None

Excellent

9

39

M

Machine crush injury

L

6

MGMF

27

Y

E-X

5/25.9

18 × 7

None

Good

10

45

M

Traffic accident

R

4

MGMF

21

N

E-X

6/28.1

15 × 7

None

Excellent

11

31

M

Machine crush injury

R

5

MGF

19

N

E-X

11/24.7

20 × 6

None

Excellent

12

25

M

Traffic accident

L

4

MGF

13

N

E-X

7/33.9

13 × 8

None

Excellent

13

58

M

Traffic accident

R

4

MGF

14

Y

LCP

0

5 × 6

None

Good

14

72

M

Traffic accident

R

7

MGF

42

Y

E-X

13/37.9

16 × 7

Poor bone healing

Good

15

60

F

Traffic accident

R

5

SMF

26

N

E-X

5/24.6

21 × 10

None

Excellent

  1. MGMF medial gastrocnemius myocutaneous flap, MGF medial gastrocnemius muscle or mucocutaneous flap, SMF soleus muscle or mucocutaneous flap, IMN intramedullary nail, E-X external fixator, LCP locking compression plate, VAC Vacuum Assisted Closure, MESS Mangled Extremity Severity Score.