Functional outcome after soft-tissue reconstruction for limb salvage after sarcoma surgery

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 102, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1576-1583

  Serletti, Joseph M ^a   Carras, Alexis J ^a   O'Keefe, Regis J ^a   Rosier, Randy N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADJUVANT THERAPY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AMPUTATION; ARTICLE; BONE NECROSIS; CANCER MORTALITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LIMB SALVAGE; MALE; METASTASIS; PLASTIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION INJURY; SARCOMA; SOFT TISSUE DEFECT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR RECURRENCE; ARM MOVEMENT; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; DONOR SITE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HYPERBARISM; NOTE; PEDICLED SKIN FLAP; WOUND HEALING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARM; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; SARCOMA; SOFT TISSUE NEOPLASMS; SURGICAL FLAPS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0031781948     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006534-199810000-00036     Document Type: Article

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