Pharmacologic partial salvage of a failing free flap with recombinant tissue plasminogen activator (rt-PA)

Journal of Reconstructive Microsurgery

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 585-590

  Atiyeh, Bishara S ^b   Fuleihan, Nabil S ^b   Musharafieh, Ramzi S ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTEPLASE;

ANASTOMOSIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DRUG EFFECT; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MICROVASCULAR SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; SALVAGE THERAPY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THROMBOSIS;

EID: 0032763654     PISSN: 0743684X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2007-1000142     Document Type: Article

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