Repair of "coup de sabre," a linear form of scleroderma.
Gülhane Military Medical Academy and Medical School, Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Ankara, Turkey.
A case of coup de sabre, a linear form of scleroderma, is presented. Treatment consisted of soft-tissue expansion and autologous bone grafting to the forehead, a composite graft for alar reconstruction, and a scalp graft for eyebrow reconstruction. None of the linear scleroderma cases reported in the literature consisted of bony reconstruction.
PMID: 8905054 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]