Radial forearm flaps for reconstruction in hand surgery

Scandinavian Journal of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and Hand Surgery

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 112-117

  Yajima, Hiroshi ^a   Kobata, Yasunori ^a   Kawamura, Kenji ^a   Shigematsu, Koji ^a   Kawate, Kenji ^a   Tamai, Susumu ^b  

^a NARA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b West Nara Central Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hand; Radial forearm flap; Sensory flap; Vascularised bone graft; Vascularized tendon graft

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLD TOLERANCE; DONOR SITE; FEMALE; FINGER; FOREARM; FRACTURE HEALING; GRAFT INFECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HAND SURGERY; HUMAN; ISLAND FLAP; MALE; SKIN FLAP; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THUMB; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLD; FEMALE; FOREARM; HAND; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RADIUS; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; SURGICAL FLAPS; TENDONS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 1942487400     PISSN: 02844311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02844310310014847     Document Type: Article

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