Medial gastrocnemius muscle flap in limb-sparing surgery of malignant bone tumors of the proximal tibia: Mid-term results in 25 patients

Annals of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 266-272

  Buchner, Matthias ^a   Zeifang, Felix ^b   Bernd, Ludger ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALLOGRAFT; ARTICLE; BONE DEFECT; BONE TUMOR; CANCER SURGERY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ENDOPROSTHESIS; FEMALE; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HUMAN; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MUSCLE FLAP; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN TRANSPOSITION FLAP; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL RATE; TUMOR VASCULARIZATION;

BONE NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; KNEE JOINT; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; REOPERATION; SURGICAL FLAPS; TIBIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0041837169     PISSN: 01487043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.SAP.0000063752.33986.97     Document Type: Article

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