Muscle Perforator Flaps: The Name Game

Annals of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 630-632

  Hallock, Geoffrey G ^a,b  

^a LEHIGH VALLEY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD VESSEL; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; HUMAN; MUSCLE; MUSCLE FLAP; MUSCLE PERFORATOR FLAP; NOMENCLATURE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STANDARDIZATION; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TISSUE BLOOD FLOW; TISSUE FLAP;

GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURGICAL FLAPS; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING;

EID: 0345492053     PISSN: 01487043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.sap.0000095721.88559.a2     Document Type: Review

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