Reconstruction for palmar skin defects of the digits and hand using plantar dermal grafting

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 101, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 992-998

  Tanabe, Hiroko Yanaga ^a   Aoyagi, Akira ^b   Tai, Yoshiaki ^b   Kiyokawa, Kensuke ^b   Inoue, Yojiro ^b  

^a KURUME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HAND MALFORMATION; HAND RECONSTRUCTION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; INFANT; MALE; PLANTARIS MUSCLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN GRAFT; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FINGER INJURIES; FOOT; HAND INJURIES; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION;

EID: 0031956044     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006534-199804040-00016     Document Type: Article

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