Muscle flap salvage of spine wounds with soft tissue defects or infection

Spine

Volumn 28, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1203-1211

  Dumanian, Gregory A ^a,b   Ondra, Stephen L ^a   Liu, John ^a   Schafer, Michael F ^a   Chao, Jerome D ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Div of Plast and Reconstr Surgery   (United States)

Author keywords

Flap; Gluteus; Infection; Paraspinous muscle; Salvage; Spine; Trapezius

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CERVICAL SPINE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEBRIDEMENT; FEMALE; GLUTEUS MAXIMUS MUSCLE; HUMAN; INFECTION; INSTRUMENTATION; MALE; MUSCLE FLAP; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOFT TISSUE DEFECT; SPINE FUSION; SPINE INJURY; TRAPEZIUS MUSCLE; WOUND CLOSURE; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 0037602236     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.BRS.0000067260.22943.48     Document Type: Article

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