Direct and indirect perforator flaps: The history and the controversy

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 111, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 855-866

  Hallock, Geoffrey G ^a  

^a LEHIGH VALLEY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINUING EDUCATION; FASCIOCUTANEOUS FLAP; HUMAN; MYOCUTANEOUS FLAP; NOMENCLATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SKIN FLAP; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VASCULARIZATION;

FASCIA; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; MICROCIRCULATION; MICROSURGERY; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; SKIN; SURGICAL FLAPS; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING;

EID: 0037314425     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.PRS.0000040462.38363.C7     Document Type: Review

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