The combined flap based on a single vascular source: A clinical experience with 32 Cases

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 97, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 1385-1390

  Yamamoto, Yuhei ^a,b   Nohira, Kunihiko ^a   Minakawa, Hidehiko ^a   Takeno, Naokazu ^a   Sugihara, Tsuneki ^a   Shintomi, Yoshihisa ^a  

^a School of Medicine ^*

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL TONE; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MYOCUTANEOUS FLAP; NECROSIS; PEDICLED SKIN FLAP; PLASTIC SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ABDOMINAL NEOPLASMS; ADULT; AGED; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CHONDROSARCOMA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGIC NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL FLAPS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0029898781     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006534-199606000-00010     Document Type: Article

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