Avulsion injuries are one of the traumatic injuries which occur due to tangential force and are difficult to reconstruct. Hence, scalp replantation remains the only ideal surgical modality. Warm ischemia time of 17 hours and cold ischemia time of 24 hours is considered standard.1 ?Fig.?1 shows the anatomy of the scalp. We present the case of a 45-yearold female who presented 8 hours after injury with scalp avulsion due to entanglement of head scarf (dupatta) in the motorized machine. The avulsed segment was brought after 1 hour of the presentation. Line of avulsion was–both eyebrows, root of nose, above ears, and occipital area. The plane of cleavage was loose areolar tissue. The preoperative photographs are shown in ?Figs. 2 and ?Figs. 3 . Through washing with normal saline, manual picking of visible debris was done, and hairs were trimmed all over the avulsed part. Left anterior branch of superficial temporal artery and right posterior branch of vein accompanying it were anastomosed using Nylon 8–0 under loupe magnification (4X) and general anesthesia by single team. No neural repair was done. The approximate blood loss was 400 mL, postoperative hemoglobin recorded 11 g%. No blood transfusion was done. Temperature, skin color, and scratch test were used for clinical monitoring. Low-molecular weight dextran was given in postoperative period for 5 days. First dressing was done on day 2 and discoloration of the posterior part was noted. On day 4, debridement of necrosed area was done and left to heal by secondary intenton, as shown in ?Fig.?4. After 1 year, she had normal hair growth, as shown in ?Fig.?5.
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