Abstract
To identify the pattern of degloving injuries of the lower limb to help in designing a management protocol for such injuries. Descriptive study. Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Hayatabad Medical Complex, Peshawar over a period of 3 years from September 1998 to August 2001. Fifty patients with degloving injuries of the lower limb were included, type, cause, extent and location of degloving injury was identified in all of them. Majority of the patients were males (74%) with a median age of 14 years. The most common cause of trauma was roadside accidents (96%). Left lower limb involvement was more common (72%). Sixty-six per cent of the cases sustained trauma to the leg. The type of degloving injury observed more frequently was open degloving in 94% of the patients. Fifty one percent patients had proximally attached degloved skin. The pattern of degloving injuries of the lower limb emerging from this study will help clinicians to identify the pattern of these injuries and develop a management protocol.
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