The scalping flap for reconstruction of upper cranial and cranial base defects

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 114, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 186-189

  Patel, Munjal P ^a,b   Spinelli, Henry M ^a,b  

^a Weill Med Coll of Cornell Univ ^*

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONE GRAFT; BRAIN ABSCESS; CRANIOPLASTY; HUMAN; MYOCUTANEOUS FLAP; PEDICLED SKIN FLAP; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SCALPING FLAP; SKIN FLAP; SKULL BASE FRACTURE; SKULL DEFECT; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VASCULARIZATION; AGED; ARTICLE; FOLLOW UP; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NOSE TUMOR; ORBIT TUMOR; PLASTIC SURGERY; SCALP; SKULL BASE TUMOR; SKULL TUMOR;

AGED; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; NOSE NEOPLASMS; ORBITAL NEOPLASMS; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; SCALP; SKULL BASE NEOPLASMS; SKULL NEOPLASMS; SURGICAL FLAPS;

EID: 3142754291     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.PRS.0000129077.41960.76     Document Type: Review

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