EVALUATION OF THE EFFICIENCY OF USING THE DISTALLY BASED FASCIOCUTANEOUS RADIAL FOREARM FLAPS (CHINESE FLAPS) IN THE RECONSTRUCTION OF THE EXTENSIVE LOSS OF HAND SOFT TISSUE A descriptive, clinical trial on 28 patients with extensive loss of hand soft tissue reconstructed by the distally based fasciocutaneous radial forearm flaps was realised at the department of microsurgery of the Hospital of Traumatology and Orthopedics in HCM city from 1/2003 to 8/2005.