Leg length preservation with pedicled fillet of foot flaps after traumatic amputations

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 115, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 498-505

  Ghali, Shadi ^b   Harris, Paul A ^b   Khan, Umraz ^a   Pearse, Mick ^b   Nanchahal, Jagdeep ^b  

^a CHARING CROSS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABOVE KNEE AMPUTATION; ADULT; AMPUTATION STUMP; ANALGESIA; ANTERIOR TIBIAL NEUROVASCULAR PEDICLE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEBRIDEMENT; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; JOINT FUNCTION; KNEE AMPUTATION; KNEE FUNCTION; KNEE PROSTHESIS; LEG LENGTH; LIMB INJURY; MALE; MICROVASCULAR SURGERY; MORBIDITY; PEDICLED FILLET FOOT FLAP; PEDICLED SKIN FLAP; POSTERIOR TIBIAL NEUROVASCULAR PEDICLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOFT TISSUE DEFECT; TRAUMATIC AMPUTATION; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM;

ADULT; AMPUTATION STUMPS; AMPUTATION, TRAUMATIC; ARTIFICIAL LIMBS; BICYCLING; DEBRIDEMENT; FRACTURES, OPEN; HUMANS; LEG INJURIES; LEG LENGTH INEQUALITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; SURGICAL FLAPS; TIBIA; TIBIAL FRACTURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 14044257315     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.PRS.0000149482.96729.11     Document Type: Article

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