Getting the most from the soleus muscle

Annals of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 139-146

  Hallock, Geoffrey G ^a,b  

^a LEHIGH VALLEY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DECUBITUS; FASCIOCUTANEOUS FLAP; GUNSHOT INJURY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LEG INJURY; MUSCLE FLAP; OSTEOMYELITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLEUS MUSCLE; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FRACTURES, OPEN; HUMANS; LEG INJURIES; MICROSURGERY; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; OSTEOMYELITIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL FLAPS; TIBIAL FRACTURES; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 0030049033     PISSN: 01487043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000637-199602000-00006     Document Type: Article

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