Abstract
Surgical management of open neglected Achilles tendon injury and damaged overlying skin is very demanding. Here, we report a case of 50 year-old man who sustained an injury to the left Achilles tendon causing complete disruption of the tendon with an open wound. The patient came to us after 3 months and was managed by tendon debridement, reconstruction by the Bosworth method, and resurfacing with a distal posterior tibial artery perforator based turn-over adipofascial flap covered with a split thickness skin graft. There was minimal skin graft loss which healed by itself. A 9 month follow up of the reconstructed tendon showed a good functional result and a normal range of dorsi and plantar flexion of the foot. This technique provides an easy and quick solution to resurface the tendoachilles with minimal donor site morbidity.
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