Experiences with microsurgical tissue transfers in elderly patients

Microsurgery

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 390-395

  Özkan, Ömer ^a   Özgentas, H Ege ^a   Islamoglu, Kemal ^a   Boztug, Neval ^a   Bigat, Zekiye ^a   Dikici, M Bahadir ^a  

^a AKDENIZ UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; BLOOD VESSEL SHUNT; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; GERIATRIC SURGERY; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEAD AND NECK SURGERY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; LIMB DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MICROSURGERY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; OPERATION DURATION; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PARAMETER; PLASTIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VASCULAR DISEASE;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL FLAPS; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 23244463898     PISSN: 07381085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/micr.20136     Document Type: Review

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