A new flap design: Neural-island flap

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 114, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1467-1477

  Akyürek, Mustafa ^a,b   Şafak, Tunç ^a,b   Sönmez, Erhan ^a,b   Özkan, Ömer ^a,b   Keçik, Abdullah ^a,b  

^a Hacettepe Univ Faculty of Medicine ^*

^b HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; ISLAND FLAP; MALE; MICROANGIOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SKIN NERVE; SOFT TISSUE DEFECT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; ANIMALS; CARBON; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; COLORING AGENTS; DEBRIDEMENT; FEMALE; FOOT ULCER; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; ILIAC ARTERY; LATEX; LEAD; MALE; OXIDES; PERFUSION; PRESSURE ULCER; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; SURAL NERVE; SURGICAL FLAPS; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 14944380069     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.PRS.0000138749.47015.E8     Document Type: Article

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