Assessment of donor-site functional morbidity from radial forearm fasciocutaneous free flap harvest

Archives of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 125, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 1371-1374

  Brown, Mark T ^a   Couch, Marion E ^a   Huchton, David M ^a,b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DONOR SITE; FEMALE; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HAND GRIP; HUMAN; MALE; MORBIDITY; PLASTIC SURGERY; SENSATION; SURGICAL ANATOMY;

EID: 0032787413     PISSN: 08864470     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archotol.125.12.1371     Document Type: Article

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