Reliability of free-flap coverage in diabetic foot ulcers

Microsurgery

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 107-112

  Özkan, Ömer ^a   Coşkunfirat, O Koray ^a   Özgentaş, H Ege ^a  

^a AKDENIZ UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AMPUTATION; ARM; ARTERIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL SHUNT; CARDIOPULMONARY HEMODYNAMICS; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEBRIDEMENT; DIABETIC FOOT; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; FASCIOCUTANEOUS FLAP; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FOREARM; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; GRACILIS MUSCLE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LIMB SALVAGE; LOWER LEG; MALE; PLASTIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; REVASCULARIZATION; SKIN FLAP SURVIVAL; SOFT TISSUE DEFECT; TENSOR FASCIA LATA MUSCLE; THIGH; VASCULAR PATENCY; WOUND; WOUND HEALING;

ADULT; AGED; DEBRIDEMENT; DIABETIC FOOT; HUMANS; LIMB SALVAGE; MALE; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; SURGICAL FLAPS;

EID: 14644443502     PISSN: 07381085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/micr.20094     Document Type: Article

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