Combined semimembranosus muscle and epigastric skin flap: A new model of composite-free flap in the rat

Annals of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 310-315

  Agaoglu, Galip ^a   Siemionow, Maria ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Combined muscle skin flap model; Free flap in the rat; Semimembranosus muscle flap

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL DIAMETER; BLOOD VESSEL SHUNT; COMPOSITE GRAFT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIGASTRIC SKIN FLAP; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; INGUINAL REGION; MICROCIRCULATION; MUSCLE; MYOCUTANEOUS FLAP; NECK; NONHUMAN; PEDICLED SKIN FLAP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEMIMEMBRANOSUS MUSCLE; SEMIMEMBRANOSUS MUSCLE FLAP; SKIN FLAP; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANIMALS; EPIGASTRIC ARTERIES; FEMORAL ARTERY; GRAFT SURVIVAL; GROIN; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; MODELS, ANIMAL; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; RATS; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; SURGICAL FLAPS;

EID: 24044549007     PISSN: 01487043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.sap.0000171683.93286.88     Document Type: Article

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