An evaluation of hard palate mucosa graft as a lining material in alar reconstruction: A 7-year experience applied to the full-thickness alar defect

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 105, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1940-1947

  Hatoko, Mitsuo ^a   Tanaka, Aya ^b   Kuwahara, Masamitsu ^b   Tada, Hideyuki ^b   Imai, Keisuke ^b   Muramatsu, Tsutomu ^b  

^a NARA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMATERIAL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; HARD PALATE; HUMAN; NECROSIS; NOSE CARTILAGE; NOSE RECONSTRUCTION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN FLAP; SURGICAL APPROACH; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 0034058536     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006534-200005000-00004     Document Type: Article

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