Partial failure of a free flap salvaged by using the surviving portion as a 'Bridge' flap for revascularizing a second free flap

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 100, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 981-985

  Hallock, Geoffrey G ^a,b  

^a LEHIGH VALLEY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANASTOMOSIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DEBRIDEMENT; EMBOLISM; FEMALE; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; GRANULATION TISSUE; HUMAN; LEG BLOOD FLOW; LIMB ISCHEMIA; LIMB SALVAGE; MICROSURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVASCULARIZATION; SKIN GRAFT; TREATMENT FAILURE; VEIN GRAFT; WOUND CONTRACTION;

EID: 0030921678     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006534-199709001-00022     Document Type: Article

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