Free fibula long bone reconstruction in orthopedic oncology: A surgical algorithm for reconstructive options

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 113, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1989-2000

  Zaretski, Arik ^a,b   Amir, Aharon ^a,b   Meller, Isaac ^a,b   Leshem, David ^a,b   Kollender, Yehuda ^a,b   Barnea, Yoav ^a,b   Bickels, Jacob ^a,b   Shpitzer, Thomas ^a,b   Ad El, Dean ^a,b   Gur, Eyal ^a,b,c  

^a Tel Aviv University ^*

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE DEFECT; BONE GRAFT; BONE RESECTION; CHILD; CHONDROSARCOMA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EWING SARCOMA; FEMALE; FIBULA; HUMAN; MALE; OSTEOSARCOMA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; WEIGHT BEARING; ALGORITHM; BONE TUMOR; CASE REPORT; FEMUR TUMOR; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMERUS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PLASTIC SURGERY; RADIUS; SARCOMA; SCINTISCANNING; TIBIA; TRANSPLANTATION; WOUND HEALING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHMS; BONE NEOPLASMS; CHILD; FEMALE; FEMORAL NEOPLASMS; FIBULA; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; HUMERUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RADIUS; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; SARCOMA; SURGICAL FLAPS; TIBIA; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 3242684475     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.PRS.0000122213.82011.C5     Document Type: Article

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