The repair of multiple rectovaginal fistulas with the neurovascular pudendal thigh flap (Singapore flap)

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 99, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 2071-2073

  Gürlek, Ali ^a   Gherardini, Giulio ^b   Coban, Y Kenan ^b   Görgü, Metin ^b   Erdogan, Bülent ^b   Evans, Gregory R D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; NEUROVASCULAR ISLAND FLAP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTOVAGINAL FISTULA; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

FASCIA; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; RECTOVAGINAL FISTULA; RECTUM; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; SURGICAL FLAPS; THIGH; VAGINA;

EID: 0343416894     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006534-199706000-00041     Document Type: Article

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