The radial forearm flap: Reconstructive applications and donor-site defects in 35 consecutive patients

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 1990, Pages 258-266

  Swanson, Eric ^a   Boyd, J Brian ^a   Manktelow, Ralph T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FOREARM; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; HEAD AND NECK SURGERY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PEDICLED SKIN FLAP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN DEFECT;

ADULT; EXTREMITIES; FACIAL INJURIES; FOREARM; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMAN; MALE; PENIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SURGICAL FLAPS;

EID: 0025135463     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006534-199002000-00016     Document Type: Article

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