Combined revascularization and microvascular free tissue transfer for limb salvage: A six-year experience

Annals of Vascular Surgery

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 99-104

  Quiñones Baldrich, William J ^a   Kashyap, Vikram S ^a   Taw, Malcolm B ^a   Markowitz, Bernard L ^a   Watson, James P ^a   Reil, Todd D ^a   Shaw, William W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMPUTATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; FEMALE; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; LIMB SALVAGE; MALE; MYOCUTANEOUS FLAP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVASCULARIZATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR SURGERY;

EID: 0343484305     PISSN: 08905096     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s100169910018     Document Type: Conference Paper

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