Closure of complex defects in the chest wall with muscle flaps

Scandinavian Journal of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and Hand Surgery

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 255-264

  Ninković, Milomir ^a   Schoeller, Thomas ^a   Schmid, Thomas ^a   Salzer, Georg Michael ^a   Scougall, Peter ^b   Wechselberger, Gottfried ^a   Anderl, Hans ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b St Lukes Hospital   (Australia)

Author keywords

Chest wall; Free flap surgery; Surgical flaps; Thoracic wall defects

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BRONCHOPLEURAL FISTULA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; LATISSIMUS DORSI FLAP; MALE; MUSCLE FLAP; MYOCUTANEOUS FLAP; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; THORAX TUMOR; THORAX WALL DEFECT;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SURGICAL FLAPS; SURGICAL MESH; THORACIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 11744309938     PISSN: 02844311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02844319850158589     Document Type: Article

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