Simultaneous multiple toe transfers in hand reconstruction

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 81, Issue 3, 1988, Pages 366-374

  Wei, Fu Chan ^a   Chen, Hung Chi ^a   Chuang, Chwei Chin ^a   Noordhoff, M Samuel ^a  

^a CHANG GUNG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL ARTICLE; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; HAND FUNCTION; HAND RECONSTRUCTION; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MICROVASCULAR SURGERY; SURGERY; TOE;

ACCIDENTS, OCCUPATIONAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMPUTATION, TRAUMATIC; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; FINGER INJURIES; FINGER JOINT; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMAN; MALE; REOPERATION; SURGERY, PLASTIC; THUMB; TOES;

EID: 0023857877     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006534-198803000-00009     Document Type: Article

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