The mystacial pad flap: A functional facial flap in rats [3]

Annals of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 107-108

  Landin, Luis ^a   Cavadas, Pedro C ^b  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO LA FE   (Spain)

^b Centro de Rehabilitacion de Levante   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOGRAFT; ARTERY INJURY; ARTERY SPASM; BRAIN STEM; FACE SURGERY; FACIAL NERVE; LETTER; MOTOR NERVE; MUSCLE INNERVATION; NECK DISSECTION; NONHUMAN; PLASTIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SENSORY NERVE; SKIN INCISION; TRIGEMINAL NERVE; VIBRISSA;

ANIMALS; FACE; RATS; SURGICAL FLAPS;

EID: 29944440426     PISSN: 01487043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.sap.0000192422.31718.4f     Document Type: Letter

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