Anterolateral thigh flap reconstruction of large external facial skin defects: A follow-up study on functional and aesthetic recipient- and donor-site outcome

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 115, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1077-1086

  Mureau, Marc A M ^a,b   Posch, Nicole A S ^a,b   Meeuwis, Cees A ^a,b   Hofer, Stefan O P ^a,b  

^a Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam ^*

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DONOR; ESTHETICS; FACE; FASCIOCUTANEOUS FLAP; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; MYOCUTANEOUS FLAP; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPIENT; SKIN DEFECT; SKIN FLAP; SKIN FUNCTION; SKIN SURGERY; THIGH;

AGED; CARCINOMA, BASAL CELL; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HIP JOINT; HUMANS; KNEE JOINT; MALE; MANDIBULAR NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; NECROSIS; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; OSTEORADIONECROSIS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SKULL NEOPLASMS; SURGICAL FLAPS;

EID: 16344370570     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.PRS.0000156153.17258.CE     Document Type: Article

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