Extended approach to the vascular pedicle of the gracilis muscle flap: Anatomical and clinical study

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 111, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 2203-2208

  Hasen, Kent V ^b   Gallegos, Miguel L ^b   Dumanian, Gregory A ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADDUCTOR LONGUS; ADDUCTOR MAGNUS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL SHUNT; CADAVER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISSECTION; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; GRACILIS FLAP; GRACILIS MUSCLE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; LEG BLOOD VESSEL; LEG MUSCLE; MUSCLE FLAP; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SAFETY; SARTORIUS MUSCLE; SCHOOL CHILD; SKIN INCISION; SOFT TISSUE DEFECT; THIGH; VASCULAR PEDICLE; VEIN DIAMETER; VEIN THROMBOSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; LEG; LEG INJURIES; MALE; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SARCOMA, SYNOVIAL; SOFT TISSUE NEOPLASMS; SURGICAL FLAPS; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0037643673     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.PRS.0000060114.95065.C5     Document Type: Article

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