Reconstruction of composite through-and-through mandibular defects with a double-skin paddle fibular osteocutaneous flap

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 112, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 758-765

  Jones, Neil F ^a   Vögelin, Esther ^b   Markowitz, Bernard L ^b   Watson, James P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE GRAFT; BONE NECROSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE SKIN PADDLE FIBULA OSTEOCUTANEOUS FLAP; FEMALE; FIBULA; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; GUNSHOT INJURY; HUMAN; MALE; MANDIBLE RECONSTRUCTION; MOUTH CANCER; MOUTH MUCOSA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN FLAP; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MANDIBULAR INJURIES; MANDIBULAR NEOPLASMS; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEORADIONECROSIS; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; SURGICAL FLAPS;

EID: 0042976256     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.PRS.0000070981.73721.8D     Document Type: Article

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