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

Microsurgery

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 120-121

  Nakao, Atsunori ^a,b   Tahara, Kazunori ^a,b   Inoue, Seiichiro ^a,b   Mizuta, Kouichi ^a,b   Takeichi, Takayuki ^a,b   Uchida, Hiroo ^a,b   Tanaka, Noriaki ^a,b   Kobayashi, Eiji ^a,b  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^b JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONE GRAFT; COMPOSITE GRAFT; FIBULA; FRACTURE HEALING; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEG FRACTURE; LIMB SALVAGE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MYOCUTANEOUS FLAP; OPEN FRACTURE; OSTEOCUTANEOUS FLAP; OSTEOMYELITIS; PEER REVIEW; PERONEUS MUSCLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; SOFT TISSUE DEFECT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0036254590     PISSN: 07381085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/micr.21739     Document Type: Short Survey

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