%0 Journal Article %T An early complication in the donor site of the medial sural artery perforator flap: necrosis of the medial head of gastrocnemius %A Chih-Peng Tu %A Hui-Ju Tsou %A Wen-Teng Yao %A Yu-Fan Chen %J Archive of "Case Reports in Plastic Surgery & Hand Surgery". %D 2019 %R 10.1080/23320885.2019.1591279 %X The relatively new medial sural artery perforator flap is increasingly being used for reconstruction. However, muscle necrosis of the medial head of gastrocnemius after MSAP flap harvest is a previously unnoticed early complication of the donor site. We present two cases of MSAP flap reconstruction that developed this early complication %K MSAP flap %K medial head of gastrocnemius %K early donor site complication %U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6522902/