The free "mutton chop" flap: A fascio-musculocutaneous flap for the reconstruction of the entire sacral and perineal area

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 114, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1220-1224

  Vogt, Peter M ^a,b   Kall, Susanne ^a,b   Lahoda, Lars Uwe ^a,b   Spies, Markus ^a,b   Muehlberger, Thomas ^a,b  

^a Hannover Medical School ^*

^b HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLOSTOMY; CONDYLOMA ACUMINATUM; DISEASE COURSE; FASCIOCUTANEOUS FLAP; FEMORAL ARTERY; HUMAN; MALE; MYOCUTANEOUS FLAP; PERINEUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACRUM; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ANUS NEOPLASMS; BRACHYTHERAPY; BUTTOCKS; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CONDYLOMATA ACUMINATA; FASCIA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PERINEUM; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; SURGICAL FLAPS; THIGH;

EID: 14944339153     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.PRS.0000135870.63998.3E     Document Type: Article

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