Secondary reconstruction of a giant congenital lentiginous dermal nevus with serial, large-volume tissue expansion

Annals of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 546-550

  Perlyn, Chad ^b   Meara, John G ^b   Smith, Jeffrey D ^a   Breuing, Karl H ^b   Bartlett, Richard ^b  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CONGENITAL NEVUS; EXCISION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LENTIGO; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; PIGMENTED NEVUS; PLASTIC SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SKIN DEFECT; SPLIT THICKNESS SKIN GRAFT; TISSUE EXPANSION;

CHILD; CONTRACTURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; NEVUS, PIGMENTED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SKIN NEOPLASMS; TISSUE EXPANSION;

EID: 0032706122     PISSN: 01487043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000637-199911000-00015     Document Type: Article

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