Turnover TRAM Flap as a Diaphragmatic Patch

Annals of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 93-96

  Hallock, Geoffrey G ^a,b   Lutz, Debra A ^a  

^a Sacred Heart Hospital   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLITEF;

AGED; ANASTOMOSIS DEHISCENCE; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAPHRAGM INJURY; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE COURSE; HUMAN; MALE; MALIGNANT FIBROUS HISTIOCYTOMA; MYOCUTANEOUS FLAP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SUTURE; THORACOTOMY; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; WOUND INFECTION;

AGED; DIAPHRAGM; HISTIOCYTOMA, BENIGN FIBROUS; HUMANS; MALE; RECTUS ABDOMINIS; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; SURGICAL FLAPS; THORACOTOMY; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS;

EID: 0347595582     PISSN: 01487043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.SAP.0000070682.67456.6E     Document Type: Article

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