Technique to re-establish continuity of the recipient artery after end-to-end anastomoses in cross-leg free flap procedure

Annals of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 430-433

  Akyürek, Mustafa ^a   Şafak, Tunç ^a   Özkan, Ömer ^a   Keçik, Abdullah ^a  

^a HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; END TO END ANASTOMOSIS; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; HUMAN; LATISSIMUS DORSI FLAP; LEG BLOOD FLOW; LEG INJURY; MICROSURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TIBIAL ARTERY;

EID: 0036789357     PISSN: 01487043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000637-200210000-00017     Document Type: Article

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