Invited discussion: Distally-based sural flap in treatment of chronic venous ulcers

Annals of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 166-168

  Weinzweig, Norman ^a  

^a RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHRONIC DISEASE; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; HEMODYNAMICS; LEG ULCER; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN FLAP; SKIN GRAFT; VENOUS STASIS;

EID: 22944439054     PISSN: 01487043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.sap.0000170502.34873.56     Document Type: Note

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