Perforator-pedicled skin island flap for coverage of microvascular anastomoses in myocutaneous flaps in the lower extremity

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 112, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1362-1367

  Rainer, Christian ^a,b   Meirer, Romed ^a,b   Gardetto, Alexander ^a,b   Schwabegger, Anton H ^a,b   Ninkovic, Milomir M ^a,b,c  

^a Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Quality Control in Plastic Surgery ^*

^b UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^c Universitatsklinik fur Plastische   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANASTOMOSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DONOR SITE; HUMAN; LATISSIMUS DORSI FLAP; LEG; MORBIDITY; MYOCUTANEOUS FLAP; PEDICLED SKIN FLAP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SKIN ISLAND FLAP; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THROMBOSIS; WOUND CLOSURE; WOUND HEALING; ADULT; CASE REPORT; DEBRIDEMENT; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; LEG INJURY; MALE; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; OPEN FRACTURE; PLASTIC SURGERY; SOFT TISSUE INJURY; TIBIA FRACTURE; VASCULARIZATION;

ADULT; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; DEBRIDEMENT; FRACTURES, OPEN; HUMANS; LEG INJURIES; MALE; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; SOFT TISSUE INJURIES; SURGICAL FLAPS; TIBIAL FRACTURES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 0141974058     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.PRS.0000081468.12246.38     Document Type: Article

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