Outcome of split-thickness skin grafts after external beam radiotherapy

Annals of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 551-557

  Bui, Duc T ^a   Chunilal, Ashwin ^a   Mehrara, Babak J ^a   Disa, Joseph J ^a   Alektiar, Kaled M ^a   Cordeiro, Peter G ^a,b   Mackay, Donald R ^b  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BEAM THERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMAN; IRRADIATION; MALE; MUSCLE FLAP; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SKIN GRAFT; SPLIT THICKNESS SKIN GRAFT; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR TISSUE; WOUND HEALING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; SURGICAL FLAPS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 2542543709     PISSN: 01487043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.sap.0000123353.71205.43     Document Type: Article

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