Free omental tissue transfer for extremity coverage and revascularization

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 111, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1899-1904

  Maloney Jr , Christopher T ^a   Wages, David ^a   Upton, Joseph ^a   Lee, W P Andrew ^a  

^a Inst Peripheral Nerve Surg SW ^*

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BYPASS SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIMB INJURY; MALE; MICROSURGERY; NEOVASCULARIZATION (PATHOLOGY); OMENTUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVASCULARIZATION; SKIN FLAP; STAB WOUND; TISSUE OXYGENATION; TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; VASCULAR DISEASE; AGED; CASE REPORT; INJURY; LIMB; MIDDLE AGED; PLASTIC SURGERY; SOFT TISSUE INJURY; TRANSPLANTATION; VASCULARIZATION; WOUND HEALING;

ADULT; AGED; EXTREMITIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OMENTUM; SOFT TISSUE INJURIES; SURGICAL FLAPS; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 0038077253     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.PRS.0000056874.31920.7D     Document Type: Article

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