Operative management and outcome of complex wounds following total knee arthroplasty

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 104, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1688-1697

  Nahabedian, Maurice Y ^a   Mont, Michael A ^a   Orlando, Joseph C ^a   Delanois, Ronald E ^a   Hungerford, David S ^a  

^a Médical Institutions ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; DEBRIDEMENT; FASCIOCUTANEOUS FLAP; FEMALE; HUMAN; KNEE PROSTHESIS; LIMB SALVAGE; MALE; MUSCLE FLAP; MUSCLE TRANSPLANTATION; PEDICLED SKIN FLAP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN GRAFT; SOFT TISSUE DEFECT; SURGICAL WOUND; TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND CARE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, KNEE; DEBRIDEMENT; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REOPERATION; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; SURGICAL FLAPS; SURGICAL WOUND DEHISCENCE; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0032712381     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006534-199911000-00012     Document Type: Article

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