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These conditions are not only encountered in young, healthy patients, but, due to various causes ranging from trauma over chronic osteomyelitis to tumor resection, also in patients with pre-existing vascular disease and even many years after the initial trauma.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec id=\"j_iss-2025-0013_abs_002\">\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>An efficient interdisciplinary treatment approach by orthopedic\/trauma surgeons and plastic surgeons, and if necessary, vascular surgeons, who develop a joint strategy as early as possible is crucial for optimal functional restoration of form and function.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec id=\"j_iss-2025-0013_abs_003\">\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>The goal of this orthoplastic approach is early definitive fracture stabilization or bony reconstruction combined with adequate soft tissue coverage and reconstruction of other injured structures such as vessels, nerves, and tendons, in order to begin rehabilitation as early as possible.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec id=\"j_iss-2025-0013_abs_004\">\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>The different steps of the orthoplastic surgical approach for interdisciplinary extremity reconstruction is described in the following manuscript and should encourage and provide a guideline for other orthoplastic teams, possibly leading to establishing specialized extremity reconstruction centers.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1515\/iss-2025-0026","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,11,2]],"date-time":"2025-11-02T20:57:52Z","timestamp":1762117072000},"page":"3-13","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["Orthoplastic surgery for interdisciplinary extremity reconstruction"],"prefix":"10.1515","volume":"11","author":[{"given":"Anja M.","family":"Boos","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Plastic Surgery , Hand Surgery\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Burn Center, University Hospital RWTH Aachen , Pauwelsstr. 30, 52074 Aachen , Germany"},{"name":"Department of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Hand Surgery and Burn Center , University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein , Campus L\u00fcbeck , Germany"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1676-4115","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Heide","family":"Delbr\u00fcck","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Orthopaedics, Trauma and Reconstructive Surgery , University Hospital RWTH Aachen , Aachen , Germany"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Philipp","family":"Lichte","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Orthopaedics, Trauma and Reconstructive Surgery , University Hospital RWTH Aachen , Aachen , Germany"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Benedikt","family":"Sch\u00e4fer","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Plastic Surgery , Hand Surgery\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Burn Center, University Hospital RWTH Aachen , Pauwelsstr. 30, 52074 Aachen , Germany"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Alexander","family":"Gombert","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Vascular Surgery , University Hospital RWTH Aachen , Aachen , Germany"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Christian","family":"Uhl","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Vascular Surgery , University Hospital RWTH Aachen , Aachen , Germany"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Frank","family":"Hildebrand","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Orthopaedics, Trauma and Reconstructive Surgery , University Hospital RWTH Aachen , Aachen , Germany"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0179-1962","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Justus P.","family":"Beier","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Plastic Surgery , Hand Surgery\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Burn Center, University Hospital RWTH Aachen , Pauwelsstr. 30, 52074 Aachen , Germany"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"374","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2025,11,4]]},"reference":[{"key":"2026021618052228305_j_iss-2025-0026_ref_001","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Azoury, SC, Stranix, JT, Kovach, SJ, Levin, LS. 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