The truly distal lateral arm flap: Rationale and risk factors of a microsurgical workhorse in 30 patients

Annals of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 153-159

  Hage, J Joris ^a   Woerdeman, Leonie A E ^a   Smeulders, Mark J C ^b  

^a ANTONI VAN LEEUWENHOEK HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^b ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Free flap; Microsurgery; Upper extremity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DONOR SITE; FASCIOCUTANEOUS FLAP; FEMALE; FOREARM; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; HEAD AND NECK SURGERY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MALE; MICROSURGERY; MORBIDITY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIAL ARTERY; RISK FACTOR; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; HYPOPHARYNX; MALE; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SURGICAL FLAPS;

EID: 12744255034     PISSN: 01487043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.sap.0000148238.19330.11     Document Type: Article

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