The Gracilis (Medial Circumflex Femoral) Perforator Flap: A Medial Groin Free Flap?

Annals of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 623-626

  Hallock, Geoffrey G ^a,b  

^a LEHIGH VALLEY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMPUTATION STUMP; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CRUSH TRAUMA; END TO END ANASTOMOSIS; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; GRACILIS MUSCLE; GRACILIS PERFORATOR FLAP; HUMAN; MALE; MICROVASCULAR SURGERY; MUSCLE FLAP; MYOCUTANEOUS FLAP; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PEDICLED SKIN FLAP; PLASTIC SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAPHENOUS VEIN; SCAR FORMATION; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THIGH; TIBIAL ARTERY; TISSUE BLOOD FLOW; TISSUE FLAP; VEIN GRAFT;

ACCIDENTS, OCCUPATIONAL; AMPUTATION; AMPUTATION STUMPS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FOOT INJURIES; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOFT TISSUE INJURIES; SURGICAL FLAPS;

EID: 0344629909     PISSN: 01487043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.SAP.0000067961.05231.11     Document Type: Article

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