Anatomic variations and technical problems of the anterolateral thigh flap: A report of 74 cases

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 102, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1517-1523

  Kimata, Yoshihiro ^a   Uchiyama, Kiyotaka ^b   Ebihara, Satoshi ^b   Nakatsuka, Takashi ^b   Harii, Kiyonori ^b  

^a NATIONAL CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL EAST   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DEEP FEMORAL ARTERY; FASCIOCUTANEOUS FLAP; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUSCLE FLAP; PEDICLED SKIN FLAP; PERFORATION; PLASTIC SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN NERVE; SURGICAL ANATOMY; TENSOR FASCIA LATA MUSCLE; THIGH; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; VASTUS LATERALIS MUSCLE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FEMORAL ARTERY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NECROSIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL FLAPS; THIGH; THROMBOSIS;

EID: 0031721375     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006534-199810000-00026     Document Type: Article

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