Calcaneal fillet flap: A new osteocutaneous free tissue transfer for emergency salvage of traumatic below-knee amputation stumps

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 98, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 538-541

  Januszkiewicz, Janek S ^a,b   Mehrotra, Onkar N ^a   Brown, G Earle ^a  

^a MIDDLEMORE HOSPITAL   (New Zealand)

^b EMORY CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMPUTATION STUMP; ARTICLE; BELOW KNEE AMPUTATION; CALCANEUS; CASE REPORT; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; HUMAN; KNEE FUNCTION; MALE; NERVE SURGERY; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TIBIAL NERVE; VEIN ANASTOMOSIS;

EID: 0029782314     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006534-199609000-00030     Document Type: Article

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