Free partial medial rectus muscle flap for closure of complex extremity wounds

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 116, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1434-1437

  Buntic, Rudolf F ^a,b   Brooks, Darrell ^a,b  

^a Davies Campus ^*  (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA PACIFIC MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL WALL MUSCULATURE; ARTICLE; MUSCLE FLAP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ADULT; AGED; ARM INJURIES; EPIGASTRIC ARTERIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEG INJURIES; MALE; SURGICAL FLAPS;

EID: 26844506587     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.prs.0000182378.42555.be     Document Type: Article

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