Sensate cutaneous flaps and their innervation
- More Commonly Used Flaps
- • Lateral arm flap, innervated by the posterior brachial cutaneous nerve
- • Radial forearm flap, innervated by the medial and lateral antebrachial cutaneous nerves
- • Dorsalis pedis flap, innervated by the deep branch of peroneal nerve in the first web space and by the superficial peroneal nerve over the remainder of the flap.
- Less Commonly Used Flaps
- • Transverse cervical artery flap, innervated by the supraclavicular nerves
- • Deltoid flap, innervated by a cutaneous branch of the axillary nerve
- • Gluteal thigh flap, innervated by the posterior cutaneous nerve of the thigh
- • Medial thigh flap, innervated by the medial femoral cutaneous nerve
- • Lateral thigh flap, innervated by the lateral femoral cutaneous nerve
- • Saphenous flap, innervated by the medial femoral cutaneous and saphenous nerves
- • Posterior calf flap, innervated by the medial or posterior cutaneous nerves of the thigh and by the sural nerve
