The failing flap in facial plastic and reconstructive surgery: role of the medicinal leech

Laryngoscope

Volumn 108, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 1129-1135

  Utley, David S ^a   Koch, R James ^a   Goode, Richard L ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

flap; flap failure; hirudin; Leech; venous congestion

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; HIRUDIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; FOREHEAD FLAP; GRAFT FAILURE; HUMAN; HYPEREMIA; LEECH; MALE; PECTORALIS MAJOR MUSCLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SKIN FLAP; WOUND INFECTION;

AGED; ANIMALS; FACE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; LEECHES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL FLAPS;

EID: 0031859040     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: 15314995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005537-199808000-00005     Document Type: Article

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