Arterialised venous groin flap: case report

A defect of the right cheek, mastoid and inferior auricular region in a 16-year-old female after resection of a squamous cell carcinoma was covered with a free arterialised venous groin flap. As the conventional groin flap did not include the superficial circumflex iliac artery, one of the two superficial circumflex iliac veins was arterialised and the other was used as the draining vein. Part of the flap underwent full-thickness necrosis; however, the area that survived was enough to cover the defect.