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The medial sural perforator flap was described in a very similar fashion in cadaver dissections by Taylor and Daniel [1] as a potential free flap donor site as early as 1975. Baek [2] was the first to report its clinical applications along with anatomical observations regarding medial and lateral femoral free flaps. The true medial sural perforator free flap was first introduced by Cavadas et al. [3].
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Hou, C., Chang, S., Lin, J., Song, D. (2015). Medial Sural Artery Perforator Flap. In: Surgical Atlas of Perforator Flaps. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9834-1_26
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