Neovaginal Reconstruction after Exenteration Using an Omental Flap and Split-Thickness Skin Graft

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 97, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 775-781

  Kusiak, Joseph F ^a   Rosenblum, Norman G ^a  

^a FOX CHASE CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EVISCERATION; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGIC CANCER; HUMAN; OMENTUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL FUNCTION; SPLIT THICKNESS SKIN GRAFT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; UTERINE CERVIX CARCINOMA; VAGINA; VAGINA RECONSTRUCTION; VULVA CARCINOMA;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; OMENTUM; PELVIC EXENTERATION; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; STENTS; SURGICAL FLAPS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS; VAGINA; VULVAR NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0029914204     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006534-199604000-00013     Document Type: Article

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