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Second Toe Plantar Free Flap for Volar Tissue Defects of the Fingers Yong Jin Cho, Si Young Roh, Jin Soo Kim, Dong Chul Lee, Jae Won Yang Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Kwang-Myung Sung-Ae General Hospital, Gwangmyeong, Korea Background  The  reconstruction  of volar  surface  defects  is  difficult  because  of  the  special  Correspondence: Si Young Rho e histologic nature of the tissue involved. The plantar surface is the most homologous in shape  Department of Plastic and l Reconstructive Surgery, c i and function and could be considered the most ideal of reconstructive options in select cases  Kwang-Myung Sung-Ae General t r of volar  surface  defects.  In  this  paper,  we  evaluate  a  single  institutional  case  series  of volar  Hospital, 36 Digital-ro, Gwangmyeong A 423-711, Korea l tissue defects managed with second toe plantar free flaps. a Tel: +82-2-2680-7238 n Methods  A single-institution retrospective review was performed on  12 cases of reconstruction  Fax: +82-2-2615-7218 i g using  a  second  toe  plantar  free  flap. The  mean  age  was  33 years  (range,  9  to  54 years)  with  E-mail: psczero@ i r O a  male-to-female  ratio  of  5-to-1. The  predominant  mechanism  was  crush  injury  (8  cases)  followed  by  amputations  (3  cases)  and  a  single  case  of  burn  injury.  Half  of  the  indications  (6  cases) w