Reconstruction of Difficult Wounds with Tissue-Expanded Free Flaps

Annals of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 493-500

  Acarturk, T Oguz ^a   Glaser, Donald P ^b,c   Newton, E Douglas ^c   Serletti, Joseph M ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b TEMPLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d 6B Scaife Hall ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BURN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DONOR SITE; FACE MALFORMATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FOREARM; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; HUMAN; MALE; MORBIDITY; NEUROFIBROMATOSIS; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PEDICLED SKIN FLAP; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCAPULA; TISSUE INJURY; TREATMENT INDICATION; VASCULARIZATION; WOUND; WOUND CLOSURE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; SURGICAL FLAPS; TISSUE EXPANSION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 2042419841     PISSN: 01487043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.sap.0000122855.89739.55     Document Type: Article

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