Closure of meningomyelocele defects with bilateral modified V-Y advancement flaps

Annals of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 640-644

  Ulusoy, Mustafa Gürhan ^a,b   Koçer, Uǧur ^a   Sungur, Nezih ^a   Karaaslan, Önder ^a   Kankaya, Yüksel ^a   Özdemir, Ragip ^a   Gümüş, Murat ^a  

^a ANKARA TRAINING AND RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

^b NONE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Defect; Flap; Meningomyelocele; V Y advancement

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MENINGOMYELOCELE; MORBIDITY; NEWBORN; NEWBORN SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SKIN FLAP; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; V Y FLAP;

FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MENINGOMYELOCELE; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; SURGICAL FLAPS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 19444376809     PISSN: 01487043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.sap.0000162522.77690.71     Document Type: Article

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