Lower extremity muscle perforator flaps for lower extremity reconstruction

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 114, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1123-1130

  Hallock, Geoffrey G ^a,b  

^a Lehigh Valley Hospital ^*  (United States)

^b LEHIGH VALLEY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DONOR SITE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LEG; LOWER EXTREMITY MUSCLE PERFORATOR FLAP; MALE; MICROSURGERY; MORBIDITY; MUSCLE FUNCTION; MYOCUTANEOUS FLAP; PEDICLED SKIN FLAP; PLASTIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULARIZATION; VEIN INSUFFICIENCY;

EID: 14944354179     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.PRS.0000135847.49178.F2     Document Type: Article

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