Maxillofacial reconstruction with prefabricated osseous free flaps: A 3-year experience with 24 patients

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 112, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 748-757

  Rohner, Dennis ^a   Jaquiéry, Claude ^b   Kunz, Christoph ^b   Bucher, Peter ^b   Maas, Holger ^b   Hammer, Beat ^b  

^a Cranio Facial Center Hirslanden   (Switzerland)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLITEF; TITANIUM;

ADULT; ARTERY SPASM; ARTICLE; ATROPHY; BONE DEFECT; BONE FREE FLAP; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; FEMALE; FIBULA; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT REJECTION; GUNSHOT INJURY; HUMAN; ILIAC CREST; MANDIBLE OSTEOTOMY; MANDIBLE TUMOR; MAXILLA OSTEOTOMY; MAXILLA TUMOR; MAXILLOFACIAL SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLIT THICKNESS SKIN GRAFT; TISSUE FLAP; TISSUE NECROSIS; TOOTH IMPLANTATION; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; MANDIBLE; MANDIBULAR INJURIES; MANDIBULAR NEOPLASMS; MAXILLA; MAXILLARY NEOPLASMS; MAXILLOFACIAL PROSTHESIS; MAXILLOFACIAL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; MIDDLE AGED; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; SURGICAL FLAPS; TITANIUM;

EID: 0042475348     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.PRS.0000069709.89719.79     Document Type: Article

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