Maintaining the anterior superior iliac spine (ASIS) and inguinal ligament attachment in harvesting the vascularised iliac crest free flap with internal oblique

Maintaining the anterior superior iliac spine (ASIS) and inguinal ligament attachment in harvesting the vascularised iliac crest free flap with internal oblique: When I read the method of the above paper in detail it seemed likely that the ASIS would be included for <9cm and >9cm bone lengths as described by Taylor1 although this was not clearly stated. As a result I was not surprised that the pain score for longer defects was higher (6.71 v 4.64, p value not included, Table 1), the time to walking (6.64 v 4.72 weeks p value 0.002, Table 2) longer, as well as abnormality of the donor site (very abnormal >9cm 13/27(48%) v <9cm 6/35(17%), Table 5) greater.