Gastrocnemius flap for extensor mechanism deficiency with and without total knee arthroplasty

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 428, Issue , 2004, Pages 190-197

  Busfield, Benjamin T ^a   Huffman, G Russel ^a   Nahai, Farzad ^a   Hoffman, William ^a   Ries, Michael D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Department of Orthopaedic Surgery ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABOVE KNEE AMPUTATION; ACHILLES TENDON; ADULT; AGED; ALLOGRAFT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; COMPLEX REGIONAL PAIN SYNDROME TYPE I; CONFERENCE PAPER; DEBRIDEMENT; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; GASTROCNEMIUS FLAP; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HEMOPHILIA; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MUSCLE FLAP; POSTGASTRECTOMY SYNDROME; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; KNEE ARTHROPLASTY; KNEE PROSTHESIS; MIDDLE AGED; PATELLA LIGAMENT; PLASTIC SURGERY; REOPERATION; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TRANSPLANTATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACHILLES TENDON; ADULT; AGED; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, KNEE; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; KNEE PROSTHESIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PATELLAR LIGAMENT; REOPERATION; SURGICAL FLAPS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 16644375853     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.blo.0000148593.44691.30     Document Type: Conference Paper

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