Management of complex groin wounds: Preferred use of the rectus femoris muscle flap

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 115, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 776-783

  Alkon, Joseph D ^a   Smith, Andrew ^a   Losee, Joseph E ^a   Illig, Karl A ^a   Green, Richard M ^a   Serletti, Joseph M ^a,b  

^a STRONG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS; BLEEDING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DONOR SITE; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INGUINAL REGION; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; MUSCLE FLAP; MUSCLE INJURY; MUSCLE TRANSPOSITION; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS INFECTION; RECTUS FEMORIS FLAP; RECTUS FEMORIS MUSCLE; REVASCULARIZATION; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SKIN INJURY; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VASCULAR ACCESS; WOUND CONTRACTION; WOUND HEALING; WOUND HEALING IMPAIRMENT; WOUND INFECTION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; COMORBIDITY; CORONARY DISEASE; DEBRIDEMENT; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; GROIN; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASES; PROSTHESIS-RELATED INFECTIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SMOKING; SURGICAL FLAPS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING; WOUND HEALING; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 14644433014     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.PRS.0000152436.50604.04     Document Type: Review

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