A full-thickness chondrocutaneous flap from the auricular concha for repair of tracheal defects

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 99, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 1887-1893

  Koshima, Isao ^a   Umeda, Naoto ^b   Moriguchi, Takahiko ^b   Handa, Toru ^b   Akisada, Ken ^b   Orita, Yozo ^b  

^a KAWASAKI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; EAR CARTILAGE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN GRAFT; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRACHEA DISEASE; TRACHEA RECONSTRUCTION;

ADULT; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; ARTERIES; CARTILAGE; CICATRIX; DISSECTION; EAR, EXTERNAL; EDEMA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; MIDDLE AGED; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; SURGICAL FLAPS; TEMPORAL MUSCLE; TRACHEA; TRACHEAL DISEASES; TRACHEOTOMY; VEINS;

EID: 0030982070     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006534-199706000-00013     Document Type: Article

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