Donor Site Morbidity after Serratus Anterior Free Muscular Flap: A Prospective Clinical Study

Annals of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 195-198

  Dumont, Charles E ^a,b   Domenghini, Christian ^a   Kessler, Jonny ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b NONE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; DONOR SITE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; HUMAN; MALE; MORBIDITY; MUSCLE FLAP; OSTEITIS; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SERRATUS ANTERIOR FREE MUSCLE FLAP; SHOULDER GIRDLE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TORQUE; VASCULARIZATION; WILCOXON SIGNED RANKS TEST;

ADULT; CHRONIC DISEASE; DEBRIDEMENT; FEMALE; FRACTURES, UNUNITED; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEITIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; SHOULDER; SHOULDER JOINT; SURGICAL FLAPS; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 0842290812     PISSN: 01487043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.sap.0000096378.59694.54     Document Type: Article

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