Successful delayed venous drainage in 16 consecutive distal phalangeal replantations

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 115, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 149-154

  Koshima, Isao ^a,b   Yamashita, Shuji ^a,b   Sugiyama, Narushi ^a,b   Ushio, Shigeko ^a,b   Tsutsui, Tetsuya ^a,b   Nanba, Yuzaburo ^a,b  

^a Okayama University ^*

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DELAYED VEIN ANASTOMOSIS; DIGITAL BLOCK; FEMALE; FINGER BLOOD FLOW; FINGER REPLANTATION; HUMAN; HYPEREMIA; MALE; NERVE BLOCK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL; VEIN ANASTOMOSIS; VEIN BLOOD FLOW; VEIN GRAFT; VENOUS CONGESTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AMPUTATION, TRAUMATIC; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; FEMALE; FINGER INJURIES; FINGERS; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE BLOCK; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REPLANTATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VEINS; VENOUS INSUFFICIENCY;

EID: 13244277489     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.PRS.0000146869.92997.F3     Document Type: Article

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