Abstract:

High-voltage electrical burns can often cause extensive soft tissue injury and severe vascular embolism， which can greatly damage the anatomical layers of the tissues.Especially when burns are combined with injuries such as muscle， tendon or nerves， the affected limbs may encounter a high risk of necrosis and difficult clinical repair.The high disability and amputation rates seriously affect the quality of life of patients.Repeated debridement， granulation cultivation and secondary skin grafting are widely used in traditional repairs， while complications are prone to occur， and poor aesthetics are one major drawback of those repairs.As microsurgical techniques develop， free perforator flap transplantation has become one of the important treatments for repairing soft tissue defects in electrical burns.The anterolateral thigh perforator flap has the strengths of constant blood vessels， a large resection range， good aesthetics， and small injury to the donor site.Therefore， it has been increasingly used in the repair of electric burn wounds.This article reviews the research progress on the application of the anterolateral thigh perforator flap in the treatment of electric burns.

Key words: Burns， electric, Anterolateral thigh perforator flap, Descending branch of lateral circumflex femoral artery, Repair