Latissimus dorsi musculocutaneous free flap transplantation to salvage below-elbow amputation in an emergency operation: A case report

Microsurgery

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 155-157

  Naito, Takafumi ^a   Usui, Msamichi ^a   Tsuchida, Yoshihiko ^a   Ishii, Seiichi ^a   Kaneko, Masamitsu ^a  

^a SAPPORO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARM AMPUTATION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; ELBOW; EMERGENCY SURGERY; HAND PROSTHESIS; HUMAN; JOINT MOBILITY; LATISSIMUS DORSI FLAP; MALE; MYOCUTANEOUS FLAP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN DEFECT;

AMPUTATION STUMPS; AMPUTATION, TRAUMATIC; ARTIFICIAL LIMBS; BACK; ELBOW JOINT; EMERGENCIES; FOREARM INJURIES; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HAND INJURIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; RADIUS; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; SURGICAL FLAPS; ULNA; WRIST INJURIES;

EID: 0030458502     PISSN: 07381085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2752(1996)17:3<155::AID-MICR11>3.0.CO;2-Z     Document Type: Article

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