Flap perfusion after free musculocutaneous tissue transfer: The impact of postoperative complications

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 105, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 2395-2399

  Machens, Hans Günther ^a   Mailänder, Peter ^b   Pasel, Jan ^b   Lutz, Barbara S ^b   Funke, Mark ^b   Siemers, Frank ^b   Berger, Alfred C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL GRAFT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; INFECTION COMPLICATION; LATISSIMUS DORSI FLAP; MALE; MYOCUTANEOUS FLAP; PEDICLED SKIN FLAP; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TISSUE PERFUSION; VEIN THROMBOSIS;

EID: 0343091287     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006534-200006000-00013     Document Type: Article

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