Hemispheric brain volume replacement with free latissimus dorsi flap as first step in skull reconstruction

Microsurgery

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 325-328

  Schwabegger, Anton H ^a   Rainer, Christian ^a   Laimer, Ilse ^a   Huemer, Georg M ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PALACOS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BONE PROSTHESIS; BRAIN; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN INFECTION; BRAIN SIZE; BRAIN SURGERY; BRAIN VENTRICLE; CALVARIA; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRANIOPLASTY; FEMALE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LATISSIMUS DORSI FLAP; MYOCUTANEOUS FLAP; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN ULCER; SKULL DEFECT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND HEALING;

ADULT; BRAIN INJURIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATE; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; SKULL;

EID: 22144434475     PISSN: 07381085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/micr.20117     Document Type: Article

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