The combined free partial vastus lateralis with anterolateral thigh perforator flap reconstruction of extensive composite defects

British Journal of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 58, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1095-1103

  Posch, N A S ^a   Mureau, M A M ^a   Flood, S J ^a   Hofer, S O P ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Anterolateral thigh flap; Chimera flap; Microsurgery; Vastus lateralis muscle

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANGIOSARCOMA; ARTICLE; BASAL CELL CARCINOMA; BONE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISSECTION; ESTHETICS; FACE SURGERY; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK DISEASE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LUMBOSACRAL SPINE; MALE; MUSCLE FLAP; MYOCUTANEOUS FLAP; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PLASTIC SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN DEFECT; SKIN ISLAND FLAP; SKULL BASE; SPINA BIFIDA; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VASTUS LATERALIS MUSCLE;

AGED; CARCINOMA, BASAL CELL; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CHILD; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LUMBOSACRAL REGION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; QUADRICEPS MUSCLE; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; SPINAL DYSRAPHISM; SURGICAL FLAPS; THIGH; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 28244435154     PISSN: 00071226     EISSN: 14653087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bjps.2005.04.022     Document Type: Article

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