Homodigital neurovascular island flaps in hand surgery. A study of sixty cases.

The homodigital island flap is a useful technique in problem cases such as distal amputation of the pulp, atrophic or insensative pulp on the index finger or thumb and painful neuromas. In a series of 60 operations preformed by one surgeon with the SOS Main in Strasbourg, we describe the indications for, and results of, several different techniques: unipedical flaps either advanced or "exchanged" and bipedical flaps either advanced or retreated.