During apt. 1986 to Dec. 1988. the axial flap methodwas used for the treatment of the congenital blakker exstro-phy. The preliminary is reported in this paper. This group in-cluded 10 patients, 4 men and 6 women, and their agesranged from 4 to 20. Seven patients had experienced 1-3 op-erations with failure to repair the exstrophy or to urinarycontinence before admission to our hospetal. Using the axialflap method only 1 in 10 cases can not control the urinationwell, the others achive well the requcirement of functional bladder. The longest follow-up pcriod has lasted for more than 2 years. and the renal and bladder function ars completely normal. the axial flaps of the present method included skin flap, facial and vascular pedicles of 8 types. The application of the flaps has developed a new serjies of procedures that ars suitable for the treatmen of a varicty of extrophy deformities.
