10-Year experience with the gracilis myofasciocutaneous flap

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 117, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 635-639

  Reddy, Vikram R ^a   Stevenson, Thomas R ^a   Whetzel, Thomas P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; FASCIOCUTANEOUS FLAP; GRACILIS MUSCLE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MALE; NECROSIS; PELVIS TUMOR; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SARCOMA; WOUND COMPLICATION; BONE TUMOR; FEMALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PELVIC GIRDLE; PELVIS EXENTERATION; PLASTIC SURGERY; RECTUM TUMOR; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; UTERINE CERVIX TUMOR; VASCULARIZATION; VULVA TUMOR;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BONE NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NECROSIS; PELVIC BONES; PELVIC EXENTERATION; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SARCOMA; SURGICAL FLAPS; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS; VULVAR NEOPLASMS;

EID: 33644855259     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.prs.0000197209.36783.44     Document Type: Article

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