Vascularized composite tissue transfers for open fractures with massive soft-tissue defects in the lower extremities

Microsurgery

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 114-119

  Lineaweaver, William ^b   Tamai, Susumu ^a   Kobata, Yasunori ^a   Murata, Keiichi ^a   Fukui, Akihiro ^a   Takakura, Yoshinori ^a  

^a NARA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE GRAFT; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPOSITE GRAFT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FIBULA; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LATISSIMUS DORSI FLAP; LEG BLOOD FLOW; LEG FRACTURE; MALE; MYOCUTANEOUS FLAP; OPEN FRACTURE; OSTEOCUTANEOUS FLAP; PERONEUS MUSCLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN FLAP; SOFT TISSUE DEFECT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BONE TRANSPLANTATION; FEMALE; FIBULA; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FRACTURE FIXATION; FRACTURE HEALING; FRACTURES, OPEN; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; LEG; MALE; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; SOFT TISSUE INJURIES; SURGICAL FLAPS; TIBIAL FRACTURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0036250219     PISSN: 07381085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/micr.21735     Document Type: Article

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