Simultaneous open rhinoplasty and alar base excision: Is there a problem with the blood supply of the nasal tip and columellar skin?

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 105, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 344-347

  Bafaqeeh, Sameer A ^a   Al Qattan, Mohammad M ^a,b  

^a KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b NONE   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERY LIGATION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; EXCISION; FEMALE; HUMAN; ISCHEMIA; MALE; NOSE ALA; NOSE APEX; NOSE RECONSTRUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VASCULARIZATION; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 0033965345     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006534-200001000-00054     Document Type: Article

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