Treatment and results of complications following free flap procedures;Behandlung und ergebnisse von komplikationen nach freien lappenplastiken

Handchirurgie Mikrochirurgie Plastische Chirurgie

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 176-180

  Giunta, R ^a   Geisweid, A ^a   Lukas, B ^a   Feller, A M ^a  

^a Klinik für Plastische Chirurgie Agaplesion Diakonieklinikum Hamburg GGmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Free flaps: complications; Microsurgery: free tissue transplantation; Monitoring

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROSURGERY; PATIENT MONITORING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; TISSUE NECROSIS;

ARTERIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISCHEMIA; MALE; MAMMAPLASTY; MICROSURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; REOPERATION; REPLANTATION; RISK FACTORS; SURGICAL FLAPS; THROMBOSIS; VEINS;

EID: 0033925562     PISSN: 07221819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2000-10919     Document Type: Article

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