The tensor fascia lata free flap in staged abdominal wall reconstruction after traumatic evisceration

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 519-522

  Glenn Lyle, W ^a   Gibbs, Michele ^a   Howdieshell, Thomas R ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL WALL DEFECT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; EVISCERATION; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; HUMAN; MALE; MYOCUTANEOUS FLAP; PEDICLED SKIN FLAP; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TENSOR FASCIA LATA MUSCLE; TISSUE EXPANSION;

EID: 0344958658     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005373-199903000-00032     Document Type: Article

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