Realibility of the venae comitantes in venous drainage of the free radial forearm flaps

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 102, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1544-1548

  Demirkan, Ferit ^a   Wei, Fu Chan ^a   Lutz, Barbara S ^a   Cher, Tsan Sheng ^a   Chen, I Hau ^a  

^a CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DONOR SITE; FEMALE; FOREARM; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROVASCULAR SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIAL NERVE; REOPERATION; SKIN FLAP; SKIN FLAP SURVIVAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VEIN ANASTOMOSIS; VEIN BLOOD FLOW; VEIN DIAMETER; WOUND HEALING; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; HISTOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PLASTIC SURGERY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIAL ARTERY; VASCULARIZATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FOREARM; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIAL ARTERY; SURGICAL FLAPS;

EID: 0031595045     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006534-199810000-00030     Document Type: Article

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