A New Experimental Flap Model: Free Muscle Perforator Flap

Annals of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 603-606

  Özkan, Ömer ^a   Coskunfirat, O Koray ^a   Özgentas, H Ege ^a  

^a AKDENIZ UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; GRAFT SURVIVAL; MICROANGIOGRAPHY; MUSCLE FLAP; MYOCUTANEOUS FLAP; NONHUMAN; PERFORATOR FLAP; POPLITEAL ARTERY; POPLITEAL VEIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RAT STRAIN; RELIABILITY; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THIGH; TISSUE FLAP; TISSUE NECROSIS;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; MALE; MODELS, ANIMAL; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURGICAL FLAPS; THIGH; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 0344629912     PISSN: 01487043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.sap.0000095655.59282.23     Document Type: Article

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