What you see is what you get: Lack of significant postoperative contour change in muscle transplants to the lower leg

Annals of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 46-49

  Isenberg, Jeffrey Scott ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b Midwest Regional Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LEG INJURY; MALE; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MYOCUTANEOUS FLAP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND CLOSURE;

ADULT; FEMALE; FRACTURES, BONE; HUMANS; LEG INJURIES; MALE; MUSCULAR ATROPHY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECTUS ABDOMINIS; SOFT TISSUE INJURIES;

EID: 0031036398     PISSN: 01487043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000637-199701000-00009     Document Type: Article

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